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title: "Landscape Features\n    | Ubuntu"
description: 'Landscape features: security patching, compliance reporting, RBAC, repository
  management, and Ubuntu Core device management.'
url: https://ubuntu.com/landscape/features?format=md
keywords: index, follow
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# Manage thousands of Ubuntu machines as easily as one

Landscape is the most cost-effective way to support and administer large and growing networks of desktops, servers, clouds, and embedded devices. Reduce your team's efforts for day-to-day linux server management and desktop administration.

[Get Landscape](https://ubuntu.com/landscape/compare)
[Contact us](https://ubuntu.com/contact-us)

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## Systems management

* Manage desktop, server and cloud deployments
* Up to 40,000 machines with a single instance, and scale up for larger deployments
* Create custom profiles for managing different machine classes
* Easily install, update and remove software
* Define policies for automated updates and security patches
* Configure users and groups

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## Monitor your machines at scale

* Set alerts for updates on specific machines
* Graph trends of temperature, disk, memory usage and system load
* List all processes running on a machine and remotely kill rogue processes
* Build your own graphs with custom metrics

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## Maintain security and compliance

### Patch compliance - keep systems secure and up to date

### Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

### Automated audit logging and compliance reporting

### Regulatory compliance is significantly simplified with custom reporting

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## Why choose Landscape?

### Control your inventory

* Quickly track full software package information for all registered machines
* Gather asset information in real time
* Create dynamic search groups to perform operations on categories of machines
* Easily access any machine property

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### Package repository management

* Mirror and stage internal or external APT repositories
* Upload and manage custom packages

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### Integrate Landscape with your current systems

* Scriptable API to customize Landscape for your organization’s needs
* Integrate with your current configuration management, monitoring and ticketing systems

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## Deploy, monitor and manage your Ubuntu systems

[Get Landscape](https://ubuntu.com/landscape/compare)
[Contact us ›](https://ubuntu.com/contact-us)