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  • Pro overview
  • Pro Client
  • Pro services
    • Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM)
    • Livepatch
    • FIPS 140-2
    • Ubuntu Security Guide (USG)
    • Common Criteria EAL2
    • Anbox Cloud
    • ROS ESM
    • Real-time kernel
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Ubuntu Pro Client documentation
Ubuntu Pro Client documentation
  • Tutorials
    • Introduction to the Pro Client commands
    • Explore your system's security with Pro
    • Host your own APT news
  • How-to guides
    • Attach...
      • How to attach
      • Simulate attaching
      • Attach with a configuration file
    • Enable...
      • Anbox Cloud
      • CC EAL
      • CIS or USG
      • ESM-Infra and ESM-Apps
      • ESM-Infra Legacy on Trusty
      • FIPS
      • Landscape
      • Livepatch
      • Real-Time Ubuntu
    • Handle vulnerabilities...
      • Check if affected by a CVE
      • Use pro fix to resolve a CVE/USN
      • Preview pro fix results
      • Skip fixing related USNs
      • Check if your system is affected by multiple CVEs
      • Preview result of fixing multiple CVEs
    • Configure messages...
      • Display APT News
      • How to use custom APT configuration
      • Refresh MOTD and APT messages
      • Configure a timer job
    • Configure a proxy
    • Configure TLS-in-TLS proxy
    • Enable Ubuntu Pro services in a Dockerfile
    • Create an Ubuntu FIPS Docker image
    • Create a customized Cloud Ubuntu Pro image
    • Cloud Ubuntu Pro images with FIPS updates
    • How to set up the Ubuntu Pro LXD integration
    • Check Pro Client version
    • Collect data logs for bug reporting
    • Get rid of corrupted locks
  • Reference
    • CLI reference guide
    • API reference guide
    • Error messages
    • Personal Package Archives (PPAs)
    • Supported Ubuntu releases
    • Service compatibility matrix
    • Network requirements
  • Explanation
    • Pro services...
      • Which services are for me?
      • Checking active services
      • About ESM, esm-apps and esm-infra
      • Disabling and purging services
    • Security...
      • About CVEs and USNs
      • Monitoring security coverage
      • Using pro fix to solve CVEs/USNs
    • Policies...
      • Ubuntu Pro airgapped/offline
      • How machines are counted
      • Feature deprecation policy
      • Data collection policy
    • Messages...
      • Pro-related APT messages
      • Pro-related MOTD messages
      • Timer jobs explained
    • How to interpret the output of CVE commands
    • Public Cloud Ubuntu Pro images
    • About the Pro daemon
    • The unattended-upgrades endpoint
    • The fix plan endpoint
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Ubuntu Pro policies#

Here we explain our usage policies for features such as using Pro offline or airgapped, how machines are counted against tokens, how we deprecate features and what data is collected from active machines.

  • Using Ubuntu Pro airgapped or offline

  • How machines are counted

  • Feature deprecation policy

  • Data collection policy

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