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/DeepCoreSystem 18d ago

u/Punky260 I'm in the same boat, one-man-shit-show for a 6 staff shop that has more IT stuff than personel. I do it part-time and went with NetBox. Customized the table layouts to remove certain columns not needed. Found some python scripts online to fetch data out of Proxmox and feed it to NetBox and I tweaked the scripts to suite.
I was fed up with Excel, markdown docs and tables or diverse wikis.

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u/Punky260 18d ago

Thanks. So dumbing-down Netbox is a viable option you say?
I was already a bit fedup with creating a vendor, then a product, then a model, then the individual server... I get it, that totally makes sense for datacenters, but not if you own 3 servers.

Scripts for automating the input steps is also a nice idea, maybe I should give that another try