details of an event notification and its life within the system for any purpose including auditing the present invention facilitates comprehensive and multi tiered programming of the system settings including the assignment of event notification paths between event generating devices and event receiving devices such settings may be applied in a static scheduled or dynamic manner or any combination of the three application_number US 72256003 A description the present invention provides an event management system utilizing a central server program 1 and a plurality of client programs to provide intelligent event management and notification between disparate external systems the software is designed to run on standard pc hardware 55 56 57 any hardware based external system to which the software is integrated must therefore be capable of connecting to the pc housing the software the connections are typically utilize a serial rs 232 rs 485 usb or a network tcp ip udp ip over ethernet interface an external system may also be software in nature typically a software based system will utilize an ip based communication protocol each client program performs a unique function this might be interfacing with a particular external system providing a gui for performing a particular management task or another purpose to best describe the present invention it is first necessary to define a few terms we define an event as a measurable and instantaneous change of state an event is considered to have a lifespan within the present invention the start of an event.