IT Documentation Helpers
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So I have used SYDI before (after rerunning it it all came back as "OH YEAH!")
And this is a rather great tool for basic system documentation, but not really so great for Disaster recovery kinds of documentation. But I could certainly use this to generate documentation on the systems in the business as a starting point, or reference system.
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@Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:
For existing systems, check out SYDI
Anyone got screenshots of SYDI? What does it actually look like?
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@scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:
@Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:
For existing systems, check out SYDI
Anyone got screenshots of SYDI? What does it actually look like?
I'll abstract some info from a system I'm scanning, give me 15.
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@DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:
@scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:
@Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:
For existing systems, check out SYDI
Anyone got screenshots of SYDI? What does it actually look like?
I'll abstract some info from a system I'm scanning, give me 15.
Scotty, you'll get 5 or we're toast
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There's obviously a lot more, but yeah... 75 pages is a lot to go through.
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@DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:
and the report is filled with useful information? Like correct product keys for example? All NICs and IP addresses listed per host, not just the first one?
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75 pages per host?
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Here is the Word document Navigation view of what the software generates.
Assuming this system nothing was excluded it seems pretty inclusive.
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That's quite exhaustive, will take a look
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@scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:
75 pages per host?
In that range, another system I just ran again was 68 pages.
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Here is some documentation from the SYDI developer.
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It doesn't have to be that many pages, you can filter out what you want, don't want.
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@Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:
Thanks for that, I know it can be shortened.
(not trying to say it couldn't be etc)
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@DustinB3403 I meant to reply to SAM, as I don't think he liked the fact it was 75 pages.
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@travisdh1 said in IT Documentation Helpers:
@DustinB3403 I use a Drupal blog. Simple and easy to manage.
I've used Drupal for this, production sites, and a ton of other stuff. It's an awesome framework.
I've also used LaTeX for documentation. Formatting is really easy with it.
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@stacksofplates said in IT Documentation Helpers:
@travisdh1 said in IT Documentation Helpers:
@DustinB3403 I use a Drupal blog. Simple and easy to manage.
I've used Drupal for this, production sites, and a ton of other stuff. It's an awesome framework.
I've also used LaTeX for documentation. Formatting is really easy with it.
I'm actually kinda sad I never learned TeX/LaTeX properly, and haven't seen anything that would drive me to learning it today.
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@DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:
@Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:
For existing systems, check out SYDI
I think I've used SYDI before, sounds very familiar....
SYDI is fantastic. We run and store a SYDI report every time we make a server change.
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You can tailor the application to grab what you want, if all settings is too verbose. Here's one we use for basic app servers with only 10 sections.
