Ironstream™ software
Integrate IBM Z® mainframe and IBM i® systems into IT security, analytics, and services management platforms – giving you enterprise-wide observability for faster resolutions and proactive operations management.
Benefits
Complete visibility
Get a comprehensive, real-time view of your IT landscape for better, faster decision-making
Improved agility
Proactively identify, and quickly resolve, security threats and performance problems
Service availability
Avoid downtime, meet demanding SLAs, and deliver great customer and employee experiences
Cost savings
Eliminate manual processes and inefficient tools, and optimize your infrastructure spend
Don’t let IBM i or IBM Z be your operations blind spot
In the case of operations management, analytics, or security event management – ignorance is not bliss, especially when it comes to IBM i or IBM Z systems.
The trouble is monitoring these systems for critical alerts is manual or only done AFTER something has happened. The result? Longer time to remediate issues that impact your bottom line, serviceability and credibility.
Precisely’s Ironstream™ software makes it easy and cost-effective to integrate machine data from traditional IBM systems into today’s IT operations analytics, monitoring, and security event platforms. Ironstream™ software gives you:
- More complete visibility into enterprise-wide security alerts and risks for all systems.
- Comprehensive observability for IBM i and IBM Z that enables improved IT service delivery and application performance.
- Helps teams connect IBM i or IBM Z mainframe to platforms with no expertise required.
- Flexibility to move targets, Ironstream™ software’s unified integration layer allows you to easily add targets or migrate tools as operational needs change.
“For large IBM Z sites there is an increasing importance on having global observability of our processors.
Precisely’s Ironstream is a key conduit to allow system data and/or logs to be passed from various IBM Z processors and integrated together to have a ‘one pane’ visual of our global estate. This helps us optimize our current investments while fully harnessing the capabilities of the IBM Z platform, delivering enhanced agility and performance.”
Head of Engineering Practice IBM Z
Multi-National Financial Services organization
Get the right data, at the right time, in the tools you use everyday
You live in a multi-platform world – one for operations, another for management, and don’t forget your security platform. While all these platforms serve different purposes for your organization, they all rely on the same data. Developing and maintaining your own tools and APIs to access, transform, and ingest IBM machine data into your ever-growing and evolving set of IT operations platforms is rarely a viable or sustainable strategy.
Ironstream™ software goes where you need it. If you move from one IT security, operations analytics or event management platform to another – not a problem – take all your IBM i or IBM Z mainframe data with you. The software captures, transforms and delivers the full range of IBM log data, system event, and security information into all the leading security, analytics and operations management platforms.
Ironstream for ServiceNow®
You rely upon ServiceNow for powerful and inclusive services and operations management. Its unified platform replaces disconnected tools and empowers your IT teams to work smarter and more effectively to keep your business running.
Ironstream™ software fully integrates IBM Z mainframe and IBM i systems into ServiceNow so you can realize the full potential of the platform.
The software supports IT Operations Management visibility to auto-populate an accurate and service-aware CMDB, providing a single source of truth. Ironstream™ software also integrates with ServiceNow Event Management so you can reduce event noise and resolve service issues fast.
Ironstream for Splunk®
Splunk’s powerful analytics and dashboards enable your business to manage IT operations, security, regulatory compliance, and more. However, Splunk does not natively support mainframe and IBM i systems, resulting in an unacceptable level of security and operational exposure.
Ironstream™ software’s tight, out-of-the-box integration means seamless and secure delivery of event and security log data from these traditional IBM systems to Splunk in real time. Merge this information with machine data from across your infrastructure for unprecedented insights. No IBM Z mainframe or IBM i systems or coding expertise is required, making implementation fast and worry-free.
Ironstream™ software brings the full range of critical mainframe and IBM i machine data sources into Splunk to support your strategic enterprise-wide initiatives.
Google SecOps
Google SecOps empowers your teams with proactive, context-aware threat detection and alerting as well as powerful retroactive correlation of IoCs against a full year of your organizations security records.
To be fully effective and responsive, your Google SecOps platform needs a continuous, real-time feed of security events from your IBM Z mainframe or IBM i systems. Without it, Google SecOps can be blind to significant red flags and longer-term patterns of compromise that may be lurking in your core business operations.
Ironstream™ software enables you to collect, transform and deliver the full range of uniquely formatted IBM Z mainframe and IBM system i security records to Google SecOps in real time, without the need for specialized IBM Z mainframe or IBM i coding expertise.
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Ironstream for Elastic
Your Elastic Stack environment is essential for providing comprehensive observability across every element of your highly complex, multi-cloud and multi-platform operations. Any gaps in your monitoring and analytics create significant operational risk. You simply must keep tabs on the metrics, logs, and traces being generated by all your applications and infrastructure, without exception.
Any IBM Z mainframe or IBM i platforms running in your infrastructure are, by default, mission-critical. So, although connecting IBM mainframe and IBM i machine data to your Elastic Stack can potentially be a daunting challenge, it is imperative to do so.
Ironstream™ software integrates easily and seamlessly into your Elastic Stack environment, enabling you to collect, transform and securely stream vital machine data from IBM mainframe and IBM i platforms, without the need for specialized mainframe or IBM i expertise.
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Ironstream for Datadog
Datadog is critically important for managing your complex, multi-cloud operations, providing you with unified, real-time observability at every level of your technology stack. It enables you to seamlessly monitor and manage operations, data flows, code development, and much more, across all your cloud deployments and on-premise operations.
But on-premise infrastructure and systems can be a real challenge to integrate into your Datadog platform, especially if IBM Z mainframe or IBM i are part of the mix. IBM machine data types and formats are not only unique and diverse, they are also protected by deeply integrated IBM security structures. As a result, developing and maintaining the necessary customized IBM system APIs for Datadog integration is difficult and time consuming.
The most practical and sustainable solution to this problem is Ironstream™ software. The software integrates easily and seamlessly into your Datadog platform, enabling you to collect, transform and securely stream vital machine data from IBM Z mainframe and IBM i platforms, without the need for specialized mainframe or IBM i expertise.
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Ironstream for BigPanda
BigPanda’s Open Integration Hub is key to your ability to gaining enterprise-wide observability and awareness. Without it, you simply could not integrate the ever-growing collection of disparate and specialized monitoring tools deployed across your cloud and on-premise environments.
BigPanda provides dozens of ready-to-deploy integrations for a wide range of the most popular monitoring, change tracing, collaboration, and IT analytics and operations platforms. But to integrate IBM Z mainframe or IBM i machine data into your BigPanda observability platform, you need Ironstream™ software.
This software enables you to capture, transform and deliver the full range of IBM log data, system event, and security information into your BigPanda platform, without the need for specialized mainframe or IBM i API coding expertise.
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Comprehensive system support
Ironstream™ software support is available for many of the world’s other leading operations, analytics and security packages, including Microsoft SCOM, QRadar, MicroFocus, and Kafka.
Professional support for integration with the tools and solutions critical to your organization’s success is also available.
- Microsoft SCOM
- QRadar
- MicroFocus
- Kafka
