tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13209371.post4456404335762999891..comments2023-06-12T10:01:33.129-05:00Comments on Addicted to IT: AD-COIT v2.52, Inventory Tool Released on SourceforgeNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06774202673967216234noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13209371.post-67374677608910445552007-01-23T13:09:00.000-05:002007-01-23T13:09:00.000-05:00Not sure what SYDI is - off to take a look now, bu...Not sure what SYDI is - off to take a look now, but have you seen zentzu's sysdocumenter at http://www.zentzu.com/sysdocumenter<br /><br />You may find you are duplicating his work or could merge the two together. I've been meaning to look at extending zentzu, but never got round to it.Absoblogginlutely!https://www.blogger.com/profile/10375412476973524867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13209371.post-45882341184522272302007-01-22T17:08:00.000-05:002007-01-22T17:08:00.000-05:00Hey thanks for taking the time to look at AD-COIT ...Hey thanks for taking the time to look at AD-COIT and for passing along your comments. I'll definitely consider adding features - such as Word, and/or XML output as I work on future versions of AD-COIT. (Both are options I hadn’t considered when I did the initial work).<br /><br />As to your other comments - I agree about Patrick's SYDI tool - it's a great tool with lots of useful features.<br /><br />My motivation behind AD-COIT was to produce something that was both portable and customized for the stuff that we were interested grabbing in terms of network documentation on SBS-based (and SMB) client networks. Further, I wanted something I could hand to technicians and say, hey go and run this on our client-networks - it works from any windows server or workstation - and then upload the results. In large part, it grew out of a collection of one-off scripts that I was writing to do stuff like… figure out who was logged in, verify antivirus definition dates (beyond the management console), etc… again, customized for the clients – and the application stack I was/am working with.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06774202673967216234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13209371.post-50844098474513420762007-01-16T18:54:00.000-05:002007-01-16T18:54:00.000-05:00Hi Nick,
We've been using SYDI for some time now ...Hi Nick,<br /><br />We've been using SYDI for some time now and find that both of its output formats - Word doc and XML - are extremely useful. We've not yet started to generate a database based on the XML output of the system's we've generated, but that's going to happen when I get the time to do so.<br /><br />The only issue I can see with AD-COIT is that the text-file output isn't as useful as other formats. Even making it into a Word document will make the output easier to view, due to the extra formatting possible.<br /><br />So, my suggestion would be to offer text (if you want) as well as Word document and especially XML formatted output that can be imported into a spreadsheet or (better still) a database.Hilton Travishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05320101024049706410noreply@blogger.com