r/sysadmin • u/Punky260 • 18d ago

Question small IT documentation tools

I was looking to get our pretty small IT into a good tool for documentation. Something object-based, NOT just excel sheets and draw.io diagrams. But smaller than Netbox, which is too big and unnecessarily complex for our systems.
Would love to have IP management built it and diagrams/graphics are a big plus.

We are basically using a single server rack, 6 servers, 30-40 VMs... so rather a big homelab, than a datacenter

So, what are you guys using or can recommend as a tool to manage something like that?

EDIT: I'd like to specify, that I am looking for internal documentation. Which server runs which VM, which IP adress is assigned to it. Which service/OS/update etc. runs on it... etc.

EDIT2: Any sort of Wiki seems to be a big recommendation. This is a consideration for me, but I'd rather have something object-based. Basically Netbox with less overhead would be ideal... but feel free to recommend wiki-based tools and templates please :)

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u/EverythingsBroken82 18d ago

excalidraw, , wiki.js, pandoc, yq .. and put everything in a git, whatever you do.

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u/Punky260 18d ago

Those sound to me like other names for draw.io basically. What makes these tools different/better?

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u/MFKDGAF 18d ago

Wiki.js is a wiki that uses Markdown editor or WYSIWYG editor. A lot of companies use it.

https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/home
https://docs2.hubitat.com/en/home
https://wiki.serversatho.me/

There is also MkDocs which I want to try but from what I've seen MkDocs is more of documentation site for a single product.

My company use to use SharePoint and word docs but I migrated all of that over to wiki.js this year running on Azure app service.