Configuring IBM Z Discovery App and connection to Kafka

The IBM Z® Discovery App is installed in ServiceNow. It pulls the System z® Configuration data from a Kafka server. The Apache Kafka server is part of an IBM Z resource discovery solution based on the IBM® Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS® and IBM Z Resource Discovery Data Service, and it can be installed on Linux® on z or Linux on x.

About this task

For the IBM Z Discovery App that runs in a ServiceNow Instance to communicate with the IBM Z Resource Discovery Data Service in the Intranet, ServiceNow provides a MID Server to facilitate that communication. You must

Install the MID Server. For more information, see Installing the MID Server in ServiceNow documentation.
Set up TLS certificate between Kafka server and MID Server. For more information, see Setting up TLS certificate between Kafka server and mid-server.