ESM&A Listserver
Coined "The REXXDog" after a user conference way back the mid 90s.
This internet listserver focuses on Enterprise Systems Management & Data Center Automation (ESM&A). This is a free service provided and hosted by ProTech Professional Technical Services, Inc.
The intent is to foster an open, unbiased, vendor-neutral discussion for all products and platforms such as CA-OPS/MVSTM, SA z/OSTM, AutoOPERATORTM, AF/OperatorTM, CONTROLTM , PATROLTM, UNICENTERTM, TIVOLITM , OPENVIEWTM, and all other Enterprise Systems Management tools and products for mainframe and distributed systems.
Subscribers can share ideas, best practices, and compare information with multi-vendor, multi-product implementations by email with hundreds of technical analyts working in data centers worldwide.
Update Sep-2010: ProTechTraining also now has a Alumni Forum available on LinkedIn with a Technical Discussion subgroup for ITSM Service Assurance Tools (formerly ESM&A).
Joining the list
To join the automation list, send a message to listserver@protechpts.comwith the following text in the message body: join automation or simply Click Here
Sending mail to the list
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Leaving the list
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Requesting Digests
Instead of getting each message from the list seperately, you may askthe list server to send you a compendium of all the messages that weresent that day. To do this, send a message to listserver@protechpts.comwith the following text in the message body: digest automation or simply Click Here
The list manager will send you a confirmation message back, and every 24hours you will receive a single email message with a table of contentsand each message listed in it.
