13. The device of claim 11 wherein the rule engine identifies the notification as a violation indicative of deviation from a desired state, the notification processor responsive to the rule engine for: identifying the desired state and the actual state: determining a set of related objects, the related objects indicative of a network interconnection to other network entities; computing corresponding rules by identifying other rules likely to be violated upon a violation of the identified rule; assessing notifications pertaining to the related objects; and presenting the assessed notification, the assessed notifications pertaining to a state likely to be affected by a condition triggering the violation.
11. A violation processor device for querying network policy violations comprising: a repository for receiving and storing a plurality notifications, each notification of the plurality of notifications pertaining to adherence to a respective desired state in an information network; a rule engine for identifying, for each respective notification, a rule defining the respective desired state that the respective notification pertains to, wherein the rule further comprises an object, scope and desired state, the notification indicating deviation from a desired state, the deviation defined by the desired state based on an expected value and an actual state based on an actual value, the object indicative of a type of network entity, and the scope indicative of a subset of network objects for which the desired state is scrutinized, thus indicating an object being within the scope of the rule; a graphical user interface (GUI) for presenting a display of each respective notification, the display having violation views including, for each respective notification, the identified rule and a network entity that triggered the notification and for receiving a selection of a one of the plurality of notifications; and a notification processor for computing related notifications of the plurality of notification relating to the selected notification wherein the related notifications are related to the selected notification with respect to at least one of the network entity that triggered the selected notification and rules relating to the identified rule for the selected notification and for filtering the display to remove from the display on the GUI notifications of the plurality of notifications not related to the selected notification.