摘要 |
<p>A method of monitoring the performance of a telecommunications network, which network includes one or more user terminals each configured to be capable of communicating with a monitoring means of the network, wherein the method includes the steps of: providing in a user terminal, of the one or more user terminals, a respective weighting factor for each of a plurality of types of service event which can occur in the network; the user terminal identifying the occurrence of a first event in the network, which first event is of a first type of service event belonging to the plurality of types of service event; deriving within the user terminal the value of a notify factor on the basis of the value of the respective weighting factor associated with the identified first event, the value of the notify factor determining whether to issue a notification concerning the first event from the user terminal to the monitoring means or not; and wherein if it is determined to send the notification, then the notification to be sent is configured to include weighting factor information which is indicative of the value of the weighting factor associated with the identified first event.</p> |