Landscape
  • 30 Jul 2024
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Landscape by Canonical is a management tool used to deploy, monitor and manage Ubuntu servers.

Types of Assets Fetched

This adapter fetches the following types of assets:

  • Devices
  • Software
  • SaaS Applications

Parameters

  1. Endpoint URL (required, default: landscape.canonical.com) - The hostname or IP address of the Landscape server. If you want to access another endpoint URL, enter: https://server/ (replace server with the FQDN of Landscape server you are accessing).

  2. Access Key and Secret Key (optional) - An API Access Key and API Secret Key associated with a user account that has permissions to fetch assets.
    To obtain the access key and secret key, login to Landscape and click on your username in the top right corner.

    Note:

    If enabling API Version 1, Access Key and Secret Key are required.

  3. Verify SSL - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.

    Note:
    • Self-signed certificates don't work on the Landscape server. The certificates must be signed by a CA.
    • To prevent failed fetches, verify that the time on the Landscape server is set correctly.
  4. HTTPS Proxy (optional) - Connect the adapter to a proxy instead of directly connecting it to the domain.

  5. HTTPS Proxy User Name (optional) - The user name to use when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.

  6. HTTPS Proxy Password (optional) - The password to use when connecting to the server using the HTTPS Proxy.

  7. API Version (default: Version 1) - The version number of the Landscape API. Select either Version 1 or Version 2. If you select Version 2, the following fields appear:

    • Email and Password - The email and password of the user.

To learn more about common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.

Landscape


Advanced Settings

Note:

Advanced settings can either apply for all connections for this adapter, or you can set different advanced settings and/or different scheduling for a specific connection, refer to ​Advanced Configuration for Adapters.

  1. Enrich Devices with Installed Packages - Select this option to fetch devices with packages installed on Linux laptops covered by Landscape.
  2. Enrich Devices With Installed Snaps (API v2 only) - Select this option to fetch devices with snaps installed on Linux laptops covered by Landscape.
  3. Parse 'title' as Last Used Users - Select this option to parse the title to Last Used Users and the hostname to Asset Name.
Note:

To learn more about Adapter Configuration tab advanced settings, see Adapter Advanced Settings.

APIs

Axonius uses the Landscape API.

Supported From Version

Supported from Axonius version 4.5



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