Canonical Landscape? (Score 1)

Have you tried this: http://www.canonical.com/projects/landscape There is a 60-day trial. In our group's testing, it had most of what was needed to keep a set of Ubuntu boxes running, though there was a need for some custom scripting to get machines into and out of the management environment for the total lifecycle. You also will likely need a Tripwire or other file permission monitoring cron job, to make sure that USB/CD boots of the machines do not allow file ownerships to be reset. Ideally, you'd like a configuration script you could run weekly, to whack a machine back into the desired configuration -- and flag machines that keep being moved out of the org's desired config by "creative" user actions. 'Hope that helps. RAH