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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403 @MattSpeller
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      @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

      Interns work a treat

      I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403 @Jstear
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        @Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:

        For existing systems, check out SYDI

        I think I've used SYDI before, sounds very familiar....

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        • thwrT
          thwr @DustinB3403
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          @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

          @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

          Interns work a treat

          I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

          Agree. They need to learn, sure, but not on what's driving your business 😉

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @thwr
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            @thwr said in IT Documentation Helpers:

            @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

            @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

            Interns work a treat

            I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

            Agree. They need to learn, sure, but not on what's driving your business 😉

            They can't legally learn on what's driving the business in the US.

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            • thwrT
              thwr @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

              @thwr said in IT Documentation Helpers:

              @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

              @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

              Interns work a treat

              I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

              Agree. They need to learn, sure, but not on what's driving your business 😉

              They can't legally learn on what's driving the business in the US.

              You are mean 😉

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              • MattSpellerM
                MattSpeller @DustinB3403
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                @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                Interns work a treat

                I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

                You need to work on your beatings, technique must be off

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                • thwrT
                  thwr @MattSpeller
                  last edited by thwr

                  @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                  @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                  @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                  Interns work a treat

                  I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

                  You need to work on your beatings, technique must be off

                  Mwaha... One of my colleagues just said this today: "You are an expert at punishing people" 😉

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403
                    last edited by

                    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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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Jstear
                      last edited by

                      @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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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @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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                        • thwrT
                          thwr @DustinB3403
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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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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
                            last edited by DustinB3403

                            0_1468432524663_WINWORD_2016-07-13_13-53-50.png 1_1468432524666_WINWORD_2016-07-13_13-54-45.png

                            There's obviously a lot more, but yeah... 75 pages is a lot to go through.

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                            • thwrT
                              thwr @DustinB3403
                              last edited by thwr

                              @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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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                75 pages per host?

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403
                                  last edited by

                                  Here is the Word document Navigation view of what the software generates.

                                  Assuming this system nothing was excluded it seems pretty inclusive.

                                  0_1468432718121_WINWORD_2016-07-13_13-57-41.png

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                                  • thwrT
                                    thwr
                                    last edited by

                                    That's quite exhaustive, will take a look

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      @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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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403
                                        last edited by

                                        Here is some documentation from the SYDI developer.

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                                        • J
                                          Jstear
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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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                                          • J
                                            Jstear
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                                            Limiting the Length of a SYDI Report

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