Ask HN: Looking for a back end service to manage work computers

1 points by czernobog 4y ago ↗ HN

Hello, I recently joined a new startup and I am new to the IT field. I am tasked to look for a service which has backend access to all the laptops given to our employees. If someone installs anything even remotely suspicious I should know about it. All the laptops are running Ubuntu. I am okay if it's a paid service. Any suggestions?

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selfhoster11 4y ago ↗

Landscape [0] might be thing you're looking for.

[0]: https://landscape.canonical.com/

czernobog 4y ago ↗

Thank you. This is definitely I will consider.

jjgreen 4y ago ↗

If anyone tried doing that on my work machine, I'd be out of the door. Are you sure you want to be the guy that does that?

czernobog 4y ago ↗

Okay, I don't want to be that guy. Is there something a little less obscure? Just enough to add group policies, security patches, disabling installation and such, to all work laptops over the air?

verdverm 4y ago ↗

How do you disable installations on linux with git + gcc?

xerox13ster 4y ago ↗

I used Spiceworks at a shop back in 2014. I don't recall its support for Ubuntu offhand

czernobog 4y ago ↗

Thank you. I don't see it either. Maybe I will contact them for linux support