The Patterns are what determines what CIs will be associated with the Application Services they are assigned to. Patterns are only for CIs created by Ironstream Discovery for IBM Z®, they will not be able to map any other CIs created by other apps. Patterns contain criteria that a CI must match in order to be included in a Service. These Patterns can be AND’ed together to form more detailed criteria that the CIs need to meet. For instructions on how to create the Patterns, see “Chapter 7. Defining Patterns” for the details.