note chrestomanci <p>Looks like the other thing that Canonical decided to re-invent is [http://puppetlabs.com|puppet] (or [http://www.opscode.com/chef|Chief])</p> <p>From the look of the [https://landscape.canonical.com/| remarkably content free description], it looks like Landscape is a low featured closed source monitoring and remote control tool for Ubuntu servers with a pretty GUI</p> <p>Puppet and Nagios are both open source and fully featured, the problem (in my experience) is that they can be tricky to configure without a fair investment of effort, making them not worth it if you only want to manage and monitor a small number of computers.</p> <p>With that in mind, perhaps the best way of improving things would be to develop a simplified wrapper around Puppet and Nagios, that replaces many of the complex stuff with simplified defaults, so that an admin can get a basic setup working quickly and easily.</p> 983501 983501