Hello,
The servers that host landscape.canonical.com are currently down for maintenance. They are being upgraded and we expect the service to be back in about 2h, probably less.
If you are a support customer, you can reach the support service by phone as usual.
Sorry about the inconvenience.
Join the Landscape Webinar where we demonstrate the new features in the latest release aligned with the Lucid LTS 10.04. Landscape 1.5 includes features to make Landscape easier to use in enterprises such as package profiles, support for SSO and automatic LTS to LTS upgrades . Sign up for the webinar scheduled for Thursday May 27th at 15:00 and 20:00 UTC (that’s 10 am and 3 pm EST).
We just published some detailed documentation about one of the new features in Landscape 1.5.0 that was released a few days ago: Package Profiles. Here it is:
https://help.landscape.canonical.com/PackageProfiles
Enjoy!
We just published a small document with a few suggestions about how to mass register many clients with Landscape. Three options are discussed:
Here is the document:
https://help.landscape.canonical.com/MassClientRegistration
Enjoy!
Join us on April 22nd for a Canonical sponsored webinar on Desktop management through Landscape. Ken Drachnik, the Landscape product manager and Daniel Dolinov, marketing manager, will discuss how you can effectively manage Ubuntu Desktops and laptops throughout your organisation. The Webinar will be offered twice during the day: 15.00 UTC or 20.00 UTC. Register Here: https://forms.canonical.com/landscape-webinar/
Hello,
we just released Landscape 1.5.0, which introduces a set of new features that we hope you will enjoy! Read on for details about the main new features.
Package profiles is a very exciting new feature we are delighted to add to Landscape. These profiles allow you to easily install many packages in one go on your servers according to their tags, which means it’s easier than ever to have a machine ready with the software you need.
For example, let’s say we want to prepare a new Ubuntu server machine with the LAMP stack. Traditionally, you would create package activities to install Apache, PHP and MySQL With Package Profiles, all you need to do is define a profile that requires those dependencies:
Note how you can even specify version constraints. In the case above, I just provided the package names and the latest version will be used.
Now what we have to do is apply this profile to the machines we want. This is done via tags:
The moment we select a tag for this profile, it will be automatically applied to the machines in that tag.
The opposite also is true. The moment we apply a tag to a machine, if that tag is also associated with a profile, the profile will be installed on the machine. This is particularly useful when accepting new computers into Landscape. Think about it for a moment: just by accepting a new Ubuntu Server machine and giving it the, say, “lamp” tag, Landscape will take care of installing the LAMP stack on it.
Once a machine has a profile applied successfully to it, Landscape will monitor this compliance. If for some reason one or more of the packages in that machine no longer match the profile requirements, Landscape will issue an alert:
This means that the package requirement for a profile were broken. For example, someone could have created an activity to remove the mysql-server package from one or more of those machines. In this case, Landscape will not enforce the compliance of the profile, that is, it will not try to reapply it automatically, but that’s an option you have when responding to this alert.
With Release Upgrades, we give Landscape the ability to upgrade Ubuntu installations to the next available release. This means you can use Landscape to upgrade your Hardy server to Lucid. There are, however, some precautions you should take before attempting this, as well as things you should be aware of:
The new release upgrade option is available in the Packages page under Advanced Options. If any of the selected computers can be upgraded to a new release, you will see a link that will bring you to a page similar to this one:
This table shows the current release and the release it can be upgraded to. Just select the row you want and the upgrade will start.
We’re going to make a Landscape presentation at LOAD, Saturday April 10th. Thomas Hervé will be presenting the available features, focusing on package management and cloud management. Please come and say hello!
Join us on Thursday March 18th for a webinar focussing on how to manage your cloud with Landscape. This will be a detailed step by step demo of how to setup, manage and monitor Ubuntu on a private and public Amazon Cloud. Ken Drachnik, the Landscape product manager will provide a brief overview then Andreas Hasenack will perform a technical demo showing how to configure, setup and manage an Ubuntu cloud. The webinar is being offered twice on Thursday, at 1400 and 1900 UTC, (10 am ET and 3 pm ET) so that people across the many time zones we serve can attend. (Remember, daylight savings time ends in the US this Sunday March 14 so adjust your clocks.) To participate, please register
Autonomic Resources, an IT and service integration firm serving the U.S. federal government, announced today that the General Services Administration (GSA) has approved the company to offer Canonical’s Ubuntu and Landscape to government customers. The agreement makes Autonomic the Federal reseller/integrator of Canonical Ubuntu and Landscape products.
Read the full press release here
Join us on February 4th for a webinar on the latest features of Landscape. Ken Drachnik, the Landscape product manager will demo the latest version and review the newest features, including Cloud computing support, configuration management updates, the latest GUI updates and will discuss what new features can be expected from Landscape in 2010. The webinar is being offered twice on Thursday, at 1500 and 2000 UTC, so that people across the many time zones we service can attend. To participate, please register