Most Landscape accounts have a licensing mechanism; either Ubuntu Pro or a license.txt file. For Landscape SaaS accounts, the Ubuntu Pro license is already included in your subscription.
For self-hosted Landscape accounts, users running version 23.03 or newer typically have Ubuntu Pro subscriptions, and users on older versions may use our older licensing mechanism. This older method involves manually downloading a license.txt file and applying it during the configuration process.
For Ubuntu Pro subscriptions, see the Ubuntu Pro documentation, the Pro Client documentation and how to attach your Ubuntu Pro subscription in Landscape to learn more.
For the license.txt method, you get your first license.txt file from Canonical and manually upload the file to your server: /etc/landscape/license.txt. You’ll need to re-upload your license every time you renew, but you can download your new license in your Landscape account from https://landscape.canonical.com/account/<account_id>/self-hosted.
License type
You can view the number of seats used per license type for each computer in the classic web portal. This functionality is in the Licenses tab.
Here’s a summary of the different license types in Landscape and what they indicate:
- Full: License for a physical machine using Landscape SaaS
- Virtual or Container: License for a VM or container using Landscape SaaS
- LDS: License for a physical machine using self-hosted Landscape (self-hosted equivalent for Full)
- LDS-Virtual: License for a VM or container for Landscape self-hosted (self-hosted equivalent for Virtual)
- Pro: License for any client machine that’s attached to Ubuntu Pro under an active contract (Physical or Virtual)
- These don’t require the
license.txtfile to be installed or have available seats on the Landscape server - Requires
landscape-client23.x or higher to report the Pro attachment information to the Landscape server
- These don’t require the