* Steve George | On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 07:43 +1000, Dave Kempe wrote: | > Hi, | > I haven't seen any mention of Landscape before the recent one on the | > list. Can we have more information about this product vs puppet or | > similar tools? | | Landscape doesn't compete directly with puppet or the other | configuration management tools. | | When we did some analysis on where people found Linux difficult to | manage some of common requirements were: | | a. We need to be able to visualise issues before we can resolve them | b. There's a set of common administration things our staff do that are | unproductive | c. It's hard to manage security (packages) across a range of machines
FWIW, c. is one of the main things I use puppet for, but it's less about the visualisation and more about just applying updates. It could be interesting to see a way for landscape to plug in to other management systems such as puppet, so I could manage my puppet pkgsync receipes from within landscape. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
