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

[czernobog]

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?

[selfhoster11]

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

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

[czernobog]

Thank you. This is definitely I will consider.

[jjgreen]

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]

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]

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

[xerox13ster]

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

[czernobog]

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