Ironstream consists of two main components:
- The Ironstream Agent component that runs on the z/OS mainframe.
- Ironstream Proxy Server component that runs on a ServiceNow MID server.
The ServiceNow MID server agent receives requests by the ServiceNow instance to run commands that are sent by the Ironstream Proxy Server to the Ironstream mainframe agent to be executed. Results are returned to the Ironstream Proxy Server and returned to the ServiceNow instance where the results are processed by the associated sensor, and configuration items added to the ServiceNow CMDB.
See the section Discovery Data Flow for more details on the workflow.