Landscape 特性
Landscape allows you to manage thousands of Ubuntu machines as easily as one, making it far more cost-effective to support large and growing networks of desktops, servers and cloud instances.
Making software management simple
- Manage machines in bulk
- Tag machines to associate them with different profiles
- Transparent cross-platform support for x86 and ARM binaries
- Specify update policies and maintenance windows, during which software updates can be performed
- Ensure managed devices are up-to-date with the latest security fixes
- Hold a specific software package at a designated release, to prevent accidental breakage. Holds can be set using Landscape or the shell tools; both are recognised operationally
- Support a validation/integration workflow to ensure that updates don’t break mission-critical applications
- Make sure that only applications and updates vetted by your local IS team are installed
- Install, remove and update packages to managed devices
- Rollback software to a previously installed version, if a problem is discovered
- Provide custom repositories to internally provision applications
Landscape offers a complete software management solution for Ubuntu, including patch management and compliance features. And because it is designed specifically for Ubuntu by Canonical, it offers more features than any platform-agnostic alternative could.
Landscape lets you manage machines in bulk, ensuring uniformity of configuration across your network. With tags, you can set up custom subgroups incredibly easily; just choose a tag while preparing a management task, then tag each machine accordingly. Tags remain in place – and are easy to add to new devices, even at provisioning time.
Client machines can be be assigned policies instructing them to automatically update – either with all available software updates or security patches only. Maintenance windows, new in the latest release, mean you can instruct a device to to update automatically at a specified time, for example, between 2am and 4am on Saturdays. If a device is powered off or not connected to the network (for example, a roving laptop), the update will not be performed until the next maintenance window.
By scripting to Landscape’s API, administrators can operate custom repositories, which can be created as local repositories behind your firewall and mirrored across geographies. Packages can be even be copied in multiple repositories. Source list management provides control of the repositories configured on client machines, regardless of whether those repositories are managed by Landscape or not.
Watch the software management video on the working with Landscape page ›