| Description | string | A database environment is composed of a database system (the application system represented by this class), one or more database services, and one or more databases. See the descriptions of CIM_DatabaseService and CIM_CommonDatabase for get more detailed information about database services and databases.
Each separately manageable database system should have an instance in this class. This class can be used:
- to determine the software that belongs to the database system.
- to perform database system-wide management operations, such as stopping all the databases that were created by the database system for maintenance purposes.
- to view runtime statistics in the context of a database system.
Many of the management capabilities that are needed to represent a database system as an application system have already been modeled in the CIM_ApplicationSystem class from which CIM_DatabaseSystem extends. CIM_DatabaseSystem provides a logical entity to define the relationships that are specific to the database management domain. |