Our mobile device management (MDM) covers macOS and Windows but not Linux. So, for Linux endpoint management, we turned to Elastic Agent and Elastic Defend, which were already installed on every Linux workstation. Every six hours, an Elastic workflow lists those endpoints and checks whether each one already has our deployment queued.
No MDM for Linux? A 68-line Elastic workflow keeps every endpoint's config current
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