According to Canonical. Ubuntu enjoys now Landscape, a web-based system management program for desktops and servers. Available for all Canonical's support subscribers, Landscape comes as an Internet service, something similar to Red Hat's RH Network.
Highlights:
- Easy management of multiple systems -for example a company can organise its machines into groups and then act on all
- It can manage systems that are not permanently connected to the Internet by enabling a disconnected and distributed management of systems
- Easy management of the software on multiple systems
- Flexible grouping function
- Performance reporting
- It offers the possibility of maintaining a history of the actions which have been performed on the system, as well as those that were performed locally
- It provides outstanding support for Ubuntu
Functional Features
- Package Management
- Search for packages by name
- Install or remove packages on multiple computers at once
- See at a glance what computers have upgrades available
- Upgrade all packages or select individual upgrades on one or more computers
- Search for packages by name
- User management (all across multiple computers)
- See all users laid out across multiple machines
- add and remove users
- edit user details across multiple computers
- lock out users
- See all users laid out across multiple machines
- Monitoring - see graphs over time of all the following, with layover graphs for multiple computers
- Load Average
- Memory/Swap usage
- Temperatures
- Disk usage
- Load Average
- Process management
- See all processes running on a machine as of the last update, with comprehensive process information
- end or kill processes on demand
- See all processes running on a machine as of the last update, with comprehensive process information
- Hardware inventory
- See very thorough details about hardware; everything reported by HAL
- select multiple computers and view a single tree of hardware for easy comparison by computer
- See very thorough details about hardware; everything reported by HAL
- History
- See all changes made through landscape including timestamps and what computers were affected
- See other history of things not done by Landscape but detected on the computer - currently user-related changes.
- See all changes made through landscape including timestamps and what computers were affected
- Misc
- Keep notes on each computer
- Organize your many computers with tags, allowing easy navigation and selection for performing operations across e.g. your developer desktops, your web s
- Keep notes on each computer
Home Page: Canonical Landscape Home Page
