Based on our record, FAI seems to be a lot more popular than SYDI. While we know about 11 links to FAI, we've tracked only 1 mention of SYDI. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Sydi is an open-source tool that assists with documenting your network. It collects data from servers and network equipment and then generates a report that is intended to serve as a foundation to more-easily create good documentation. Pc_load_letter_in_sd adds, "It's an older tool, but it's always been a favorite of mine.". Source: about 1 year ago
Take a look at Debian's documentation on automatic installation using FAI or the Debian installer - more details on these and other apporoaches in The Debian Administrator's Handbook. Source: over 1 year ago
Fully Automated Installation, which I literally just found. Source: over 1 year ago
For network-based Ubuntu installs in our environment FAI has been a great solution. Source: almost 2 years ago
Bare metal install with FAI (after getting used to it, it is really quiet fast and adjustable) after initial reboot config management is handed over to salt with a highstate (i.e. Full config run) on boot-up. Source: about 2 years ago
Not exactly an answer to your question but I’ve used FAI (https://fai-project.org) to just make dynamic images. The scripting is a bitch and the entire process is annoying, but you have control over every step of the install, the final product is an image you can install even over NetBoot and fully automatic. Source: over 2 years ago
FusionInventory - Fork of the OCS Inventory project that enables users to inventory their IT assets.
Cobbler - Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation...
Open-AudIT - Open-AudIT is a network auditing application.
(R)?ex - (R)?ex - manage all your boxes from a central point - Datacenter Automation and Configuration...
opsi.org - opsi is an Client Management System for Windows and Linux clients based on Linux servers.
Python Fabric - Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application...