ubuntu network

[mjs_mjs]

Anyone on here have any experience of managing a ubuntu network and if so how were things centralised and managed?

[dhicks]

Anyone on here have any experience of managing a ubuntu network and if so how were things centralised and managed?

I have a number of Ubuntu machines (server and workstations) on our network. Any automated tasks tend to be done with Python scripts via SSH - I make sure each machine has an authorised SSH key from a central amanagement machine, then I can get that central machine to execute commands on all the other machines. Software updates can be done with apt-get, of course, normally run via a daily cronjob, and the workstations do user authntication against our AD server via Samba or Likewise Open.

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David Hicks

[webman]

Canonical Landscape looks good for more than a handful of Ubuntu machines.

At the moment all of our Ubuntu servers are separate and unaware of eachother - no fancy scripts to tie things together synchronously.