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.