The colama™ - Univ. Edition platform supports 3 categories of users.
- Administrators - who are primarily responsible for
- Creating and maintaining approved versions (golden images) of virtual machines for other to use
- Managing (creation/deletion/modification of) user accounts
- Patch management for the various golden images required by the users
- Faculty - who, in addition to the privileges enjoyed by students, can
- Also attach to consoles of student machines to collaborate/oversee more efficiently
- Tag any VM instance for a demo
- Students - who can
- Play, pause, resume and stop their machines and access them either locally or remotely as required.
- Deploy specific virtual machines of interest to them for work
- Preserve/retrieve versions of their individual machines at will
- Reset their individual machines to any previously stored state
- Share their consoles with their teachers whenever required.