Notifications directly from hardware and software and processed notifications from various management applications can be further processed and forwarded by still other management applications to indicate the status of devices and software (managed objects). The status of these managed objects can be reported by traps. The CISCO-EPM-NOTIFICATION-MIB contains the trap structure which carries the identity and status info of the managed object as analyzed by such an event processor. It is not possible for receivers of these traps to query the mib objects. A unique but optional feature of the application generating the trap defined in this mib is the ability to contain multiple partitions in the same system running the application. A 'Partition' is a logical grouping of a set of managed devices. These devices can belong to only one partition at any given time. The trap structure will contain information on the exact partition number and the partition name of the device where it resides. The need for trap generation is to enable multiple management applications in the network to have a consolidated view of the whole network of Cisco and non-Cisco devices.