New version of VM OneTouch is available, "VM OneTouch V1.3".

To view a presentation on "VM OneTouch" , Click on the following link -VM OneTouch Presentation

z/VM One Touch (VMOT) is designed to let customers manage virtual linux servers. z/VM One Touch automates many systems tasks involved in the standard operations of production servers. z/VM One Touch provides its functionality through an easy to use browser interface that co-exists with other VM web servers.

Product features:

1. automatic disk storage management
2. provisioning of linux virtual machines
3. rapid creation of groups of linux machines
4. building master images
5. building cloned images
6. network configuration
7. server configuration
8. dynamic control of linux virtual machines

Browser function:

1. password challenge and authentication.
a. the userid and password can be stored in the z/VM One Touch database, which is encrypted.
b. the userid and password can be handled by the z/VM control program.
c. the userid and password can be handled the the IBM VM RACF product.

2. The browser interface provides:
a. point and click and dialogues for creating multiple linux machines.
b. point and click and dialogues for removing multiple linux machines
c. easy to follow links for network device management and deployment
d. easy to follow links for displaying logs of linux machines
e. interactive window for issuing commands and viewing responses from multiple linux machines
f. interactive windows for configuring standard linux servers including:
i. FTP
ii. SSH
iii. NFS
iv. XINETD
v. APACHE

3. on line documentation, help and FAQs

Supported linux systems:

1. SUSE SLES9 and SuSE SLES10
2. Redhat Enterprise Linux – RHEL 3, 4 and 5

Prerequisites:

1. z/VM 5.1 or above
2. z/VM TCPIP 510 or above
3. z/VM DIRMAINT 510 or above
4. z/VM RACF (if using the VM RACF extension of VMLinMan)

Technical Description:

z/VM One Touch is written in CMS assembler language. It uses the
facilities provided in the CMS Reusable Server Kernel.

No modifications to z/VM base code are required.

z/VM One Touch uses one master VMOT machine, and dispatches work to agent virtual machines.

The number of agent virtual machines is configurable in the product. The default number of agent machines is 4.

For VMOT Installation Guide, click the following link -  z/VM One Touch Installation

For VMOT Reference Guide, click the following link -  z/VM One Touch Reference