1. A method of operating a communications network, in which a set of derived events occurs in dependence on or in response to a primary event, the method comprising: implementing a learning method for predicting a predicted set of derived events by analyzing the primary event and by predicting the predicted set of derived events based on data including relations between network entities and/or events in the communications network, the derived events including events associated with forwarding information between network entities; generating, at a managing level, the predicted set of derived events when the primary event is forwarded from an agent level to the managing level; stopping forwarding of derived events actually occurring in the communications network from the agent level to the managing level; and using, at the managing level, the predicted set of derived events, instead of the derived events actually occurring in the communications network, to support operation of the communications network.