System Landscape Description 

Purpose

The system landscape description is an exact model of the installed system landscape.

The classes in the system landscape description are linked to those classes in the component information by using associations. In this way, an installed component that is entered in the system landscape description can quickly find current, relevant information by using its corresponding instances in the component information.

Features

Each system landscape has one system landscape description. It provides information about the following:

·        System topology (network addresses and links, for example)

·        Component structures

·        Component information of the installed software

·        ...

Example

A system in the system landscape has the component SAP Web Application Server 6.20 installed. This installed software component has an entry in the system landscape description as an instance of the CIM class SAP_InstalledSoftwareComponent. Using the association SAP_SoftwareComponentType, this instance establishes a connection with its counterpart in the component description, namely the instance of the CIM class SAP_SoftwareComponent. In this way, this instance gets all the relevant information from the component information.