Ironstream™ software for Elastic®

Integrating your critical security and operational machine data from your mainframe and IBM i systems into Elastic for a complete picture of your IT environment.

To manage today’s IT infrastructure, you need to have a single, comprehensive view of all the systems in your environment. Elastic has become a popular open-source IT analytics solution for many companies but it does not support collection of machine data from IBM mainframe and IBM i systems. Ironstream™ software for Elastic makes it simple to collect, transform and securely stream data from these traditional IBM platforms into Elastic with no need for specialized mainframe or IBM i expertise.

Precisely’s offering is the industry’s leading automatic forwarder of IBM mainframe and IBM i log and machine data to platforms like Elastic. Mainframe and IBM i data forwarded by Ironstream™ software can be merged with other machine data from across an organization’s IT infrastructure to support enterprise-wide IT Operations Analytics (ITOA), and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).

Support for all critical IBM mainframe z/OS data sources including:

• IMS log data
• SMF and Syslog records
• Security information from RACF, ACF2, and Top Secret
• Resource Measurement Facility III data
• UNIX Systems Services (USS) and Log4J files
• Network-performance data
• and more…

Advanced Filtering of captured data uses low overhead exits with no log stream dependencies. Filtering reduces data volume and network traffic ensuring that only critical records and fields required for desired analytics and visualization are forwarded.