What would you use to keep track of all the random information about your LAN/Enviroment?

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Say you work in your average anarchy... no appointed IT guy, no Office-Manager whatsoever, just developers working in free-for-all mode and a couple of non technical people around for admin (non IT) stuff. What would you use to keep track of

Hardware / Software inventory
Backups of OS images, Drivers, and all that
LAN configuration information
Passwords for all the systems

Currently I'm thinking of having some sort of wiki + web server on our only ''server-class'' machine, but then I fear I'd be the only one who would go through the hassle of adding information in the wiki...

So, have you been through that? What would you suggest?

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