Comments on: SYDI Articles and Network Documentation Guides

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:06:02 +0000

hi, when I run sydi it only outputs the sub contents under table of contents, is there any way of getting it to produce the main contents along with sub contents.
my table of contents all start with 2.1 general information instead of stating at
1. System summary
2. Hardware Platform
2.1 General information

By: Sten

Sten — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:13:05 +0000

I am getting an error when running sydi-server version 2.3 on a Windows Server 2003 R2 system. The script errors out (2663, 3) VBScript runtime error: object required: ‘objDbrWindowsComponents’. This is occuring in the populatexmlfile sub-routine. I notice a warning in the script before this that Win32_Product class is not installed; I am not sure if this is related, just adding as much information as possible. Because of change control restrictions and the way I am forced to access this system (local administrator), I cannot install anything, nor do I believe that I can run the script from another server that has Word installed.

Great product. This is the first issue I have run into having “documented” around 80 Windows servers before.

By: Vali

Vali — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:35:49 +0000

Hello,
I have a problem, since Microsoft Word is not installed on our servers and I’d like to run the sydiscript using a pocket USB version of MS Word. How can I use this? I don’t want to use the XML option. Is it possible to run the Word application from an USB stick to create the Sydi server documentation?
For example the Wordfile is on U:\Wordpocket\Winword.exe.

regards,

Valiant

By: Dilson Fernandes

Dilson Fernandes — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:23:30 +0000

Hi,
IÂ´m a problemam witch sydi-server-2.3 script.
Win 7 and XP, Office 2003 and 2007

IÂ´m return erro:
C:\sydi-server-2.3\tools\ss-xml2word.vbs(1281, 3) Microsoft VBScript Erro de tempo de execuÃ§Ã£o do Microsoft VBScript: Tipos incompatÃveis: ‘oWord.Selection.TypeText’

I need that script for iventory my workstations.
Please, contact-me !!!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:17:37 +0000

korre Make sure the xml file is a valid xml file. Can you open it with Internet Explorer?

By: korre

korre — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:26:40 +0000

I generated local xml files on two servers,
then afterwords I used my local Windows 7 w/ Office 2007 box to convert xml to doc:
1) Server 2003 – conversion fr xml to doc worked file
2) Small Business Server 2008 – conversion to doc failed:

Reading SYDI-Server Source File: SBS-sydioutput.xml
Reading Written Documentation:

Creating new document
Opening Empty document
Setting styles
Reading Language File: lang_english.xml
Inserting Table Of Contents
Writing Section: System Information
Writing Section: Hardware Platform
Writing Sub-Section: General Information
Writing Section: Software Platform
Writing Sub-Section: General Information
Writing Section: Storage
Writing Sub-Section: General Information
Writing Section: Network Configuration
Writing Sub-Section: IP Configuration
Writing Section: Miscellaneous Configuration
C:\Users\Jaan\Desktop\Sydi-project\Sydi-files\sydi-server-2.3\ss-xml2word.vbs(1281, 3) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch: ‘oWord.Selection.TypeText’

By: Michael Capozzi

Michael Capozzi — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:36:25 +0000

I get the following error when running sydi-wrapper.vbs.

C:\sydi\tools>cscript sydi-wrapper.vbs -tc:\sydi\tools\computers.txt
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\sydi\tools\sydi-wrapper.vbs(117, 2) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: ActiveX
component can’t create object: ‘Scripting.FileSystemObject’

By: Patrik

Patrik — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:30:09 +0000

Make a startupscript that echoes the computername/ipadress to a textfile in a shared folder.

Then use wrapper to schedule a job that checks the if the file exists and then moves it, scans the computers in it and then delete the file.

Have been using this for a year now and it works perfect. Only computers that recently have been restarted are scanned and the user donÂ´t see any delays.

By: Patrick Ogenstad

Patrick Ogenstad — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:37:58 +0000

Mats: This might be a bug in SYDI but I would still guess it is related to paths (I have to include some more error handling in the next version).

Could you describe how you run ss-xml2word, ie the parameters you use and where the files reside?

By: Mats Larsson

Mats Larsson — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:18:06 +0000

Hi !
This is realy a great script.

I like to convert my xml file to Swedish but I ran into problems

C:\sydi\tools\ss-xml2word.vbs(1249, 3) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch: ‘oWord.Selection.TypeText’

I have specifed the path to all files and tried different things