14 DAY TRIAL // Good news just keep on coming from Canonical. Soon after Mark Shuttleworth announced the long term support for the forthcoming Ubuntu 8.04 distro, scheduled for release in April, 2008, at the first Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, Oregon, Canonical thought it would be nice to make another announcement regarding its precious distribution.
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
Among these there are also many other features, as they can be seen on Landscape's official website. The service benefits from a good package management, with well-implemented basic functionalities such as Search, Install or Update packages. The process management is also very good implemented providing the customer a view of all active processes running on a machine, along with comprehensive process infos, but also gives him/her the possibility to end or kill a certain process. The computers organizations, based on tags, allows an easy navigation and selection for performing operations across different components (a developer desktop, a web-server etc). Landscape is also smart enough to run hardware system inventories for you and not only as it can also report on operating system elements too.