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

1 pointsby czernobog4 anni fa7 comments

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?

7 comments

selfhoster114 anni fa

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

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

czernobog4 anni fa

Thank you. This is definitely I will consider.

jjgreen4 anni fa

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?

czernobog4 anni fa

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?

verdverm4 anni fa

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

xerox13ster4 anni fa

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

czernobog4 anni fa

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