Offline May 25th 18:00 UTC – 19:00 UTC

April 22nd, 2009

We’re releasing a new version of Landscape on May 25th. While we roll-out the code to Landscape’s servers, we’ll have to take the service offline.

Goes offline: 18:00 May 25th 2009 UTC
Expected back online: 19:00 May 25th 2009 UTC

Keep an eye on this blog after the release to find out what’s new!

We’re sorry for the downtime you’ll experience during the roll-out.

Offline April 22nd 18:00 UTC – 19:00 UTC

April 8th, 2009

We’re releasing a new version of Landscape on April 22nd. While we roll-out the code to Landscape’s servers, we’ll have to take the service offline.

Goes offline: 18:00 April 22nd 2009 UTC
Expected back online: 19:00 April 22nd 2009 UTC

Keep an eye on this blog after the release to find out what’s new!

We’re sorry for the downtime you’ll experience during the roll-out.

Offline April 8th 18:00 – 19:00 UTC

March 25th, 2009

We’re releasing a new version of Landscape on April 8th. While we roll-out the code to Landscape’s servers, we’ll have to take the service offline.

Goes offline: 18:00 April 8th 2009 UTC
Expected back online: 19:00 April 8th 2009 UTC

Keep an eye on this blog after the release to find out what’s new!

We’re sorry for the downtime you’ll experience during the roll-out.

Screen casts!

March 16th, 2009

We got a few screen casts to show you which explain some of the basic features of Landscape. Here they are:

Introduction to Landscape

A short presentation of the main features of Landscape and how it can help you reduce costs and save time by automating many of the time consuming tasks of managing your Ubuntu systems.

Landscape client registration

Andreas shows you how to install and configure the Landscape Client on Intrepid Ibex 8.10 from the synaptic package manager.

Landscape script execution

Learn how to setup, execute and add attachments to scripts to automate routine actions in Landscape. Once you develop a script, you can save it and rerun it anytime.

Landscape package management

A narrated walk through of the process of finding and installing Ubuntu packages using Landscape. This video presents a good introduction of how to execute this basic task in Landscape and gives a nice overview of the UI.

New feature: Knowledge Base

March 12th, 2009

The latest Landscape release includes a brand new feature: Knowledge Base! Read on for details

Knowledge Base Articles

Landscape now has inside it hundreds of Knowledge Base articles created by our Support Team to document common scenarios and customer issues with Ubuntu. They are accessible via the left menu:

The article database is searchable, meaning you can quickly find an article to help you. Here, for example, we searched for winbind:

Enjoy!

Offline March 25th 18:00 – 19:00 UTC

March 11th, 2009

We’re releasing a new version of Landscape on March 25th. While we roll-out the code to Landscape’s servers, we’ll have to take the service offline.

Goes offline: 18:00 March 25th 2009 UTC
Expected back online: 19:00 March 25th 2009 UTC

Keep an eye on this blog after the release to find out what’s new!

We’re sorry for the downtime you’ll experience during the roll-out.

Offline March 11th 18:00 – 19:00 UTC

February 26th, 2009

We’re releasing a new version of Landscape on March 11th. While we roll-out the code to Landscape’s servers, we’ll have to take the service offline.

Goes offline: 18:00 March 11th 2009 UTC
Expected back online: 19:00 March 11th 2009 UTC

Keep an eye on this blog after the release to find out what’s new!

We’re sorry for the downtime you’ll experience during the roll-out.

Offline February 26th 18:00-19:00 UTC

February 25th, 2009

We’re releasing a new version of Landscape on February 26th. While we roll-out the code to Landscape’s servers, we’ll have to take the service offline.

Goes offline: 18:00 February 26th 2009 UTC
Expected back online: 19:00 February 26th 2009 UTC

Keep an eye on this blog after the release to find out what’s new!

We’re sorry for the downtime you’ll experience during the roll-out.

Alert for offline computers

February 12th, 2009

The latest Landscape deployment brings us a small but useful new feature: an alert for offline computers.

If a computer hasn’t talked to the Landscape server in the last 5 minutes, the offline computer alert will be triggered.

In the screenshot above, we do have this situation (it says “Alerted”), but the administrator chose to not subscribe to it (see the envelope icon), which means no email about this alert will be sent.

Computers can appear offline for a different number of reasons:

  • network problems
  • machine turned off
  • landscape-client removed from the machine or not running

We believe this alert will be useful for many administrators out there.

Thanks for all the suggestions and feedback, and see you next time!

Offline February 25th 18:00 UTC – 19:00 UTC

February 11th, 2009

We’re releasing a new version of Landscape on February 25th. While we roll-out the code to Landscape’s servers, we’ll have to take the service offline.

Goes offline: 18:00 February 25th 2009 UTC
Expected back online: 19:00 February 25th 2009 UTC

Keep an eye on this blog after the release to find out what’s new!

We’re sorry for the downtime you’ll experience during the roll-out.