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Idea #14266: Centralized update management for multiple computers

Written by x-Na the 10 Oct 08 at 06:35. Related project: Update manager. Status: New
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I have two computers running Ubuntu at the moment at home and I know many people might have even more. One of my computers is a normal basic workstation and the other one is a server without keyboard or monitor.

As I keep getting reminders about security updates for my workstation, I never get them for my server.
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Solution #1: Manage updates for multiple computers using one computer
Written by x-Na the 10 Oct 08 at 06:35.
I was wondering if it would be possible to build a system where one (or more) computers is managing the updates for all the other computers? Where you could select individual computers to be updated or just one at a time or just some of them. This would certainly help me and possibly others too.

There might be a tool to do the job, but I wasn't able to find one googling it.

I'm suggesting tool to do just updates, nothing more.

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MaleqAlhaq wrote on the 10 Oct 08 at 11:02
I like the Idea!

I believe Canonical's Landscape is just this, but one has to pay for their support to get it....

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 10 Oct 08 at 13:18
Hmm. If I administer updates remotely using a GUI, I will soon want to start tacking other small admin tasks onto the application until it became a general-purpose - the emacs models of simple-single-purpose.

(I just ssh and update my remotes from the command line. If it became onerous I'd write a script)

biomega wrote on the 11 Oct 08 at 03:15
Red Hat freed the code of the Red Hat Network, I would be nice to have Red Hat Network working over apt xD

lutfiarab wrote on the 11 Oct 08 at 05:11
you can use "cron-apt" for server

but GUI or webbase frontend idea is good ;-)

Auzy wrote on the 11 Oct 08 at 05:57
We desperately do need something similar to (but not as buggy as) Apple remote desktop, even if its commercial, provided it has decent licensing, because landscape could cost too much for large networks.

Darwin Survivor (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 22 Mar 12 at 11:20
Separated rationale and solution.


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