Remote Console Management

I'm not sure about the unix area but nt and linux are supported by a free product from AT&T called VNC. They may have a unix version too. The web site for download is
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
I have been using this product to administer our network for over a year and love it. It can run as a service so you can reboot the server and log back in. You can do virtually any thing remotely that you can while sitting in front of the server.

I can't speak to the MVS part, but I use WinVNC to talk between Windows and X environments and it works quite well. For security, I run the WinVNC sessions over a Secure Shell (SSH) session so everything is encrypted en route.

Both the client and the server piece are available for NT and Unix so you can control an NT server from a Linux workstation and vice versa. Source code is available so you could compile it for whatever flavor of Unix you need to support.

For MVS, I would assume you could use an NT-based front-end console and use WinVNC to attach to that but I can't speak from personal experience on that part.

paul

Avocent (former APEX and CYBEX) manufactures Console Switches (KVM) that can connect to their new DS1800 KVM-over-IP box. This solution allows you to connect to any machine connected to a KVM using IP and a piece of remote control software on the admin machine. The good thing about this solution is that there's no need for any software on your machines at the remote site, and that it supports almost any OS, since you connect to the normal Keyboard-Video-Mouse ports on the server.

--Peter