A method of capturing and providing information relating to communications, the method comprising: operating a first access point including multiple different interfaces to receive configuration information from a network monitoring node, said configuration information indicating communications failures said first access point is to monitor to detect, said configuration information from said network monitoring node indicating communications failures said first access point is to monitor for is provided on a per access point interface basis, said configuration information indicating communications failures said first access point is to monitor include one or more of: association failures, authentication failures, authorization failures, DHCP failures, and DNS look up failures; operating the first access point to receive, from the network monitoring node, information indicating a number of broadcast and multicast packets corresponding to a communications device to capture during an attempt by the communications device to achieve network connectivity; operating the first access point to capture packets corresponding to communications devices using said first access point; operating the first access point to monitor to detect communications failures corresponding to communications devices using said access point; and in response to detecting a communications failure corresponding to a first communications device, generating, at the first access point, an event failure notification indicating the type of detected failure; and sending, from the first access point, the event failure notification to the network monitoring node. operating a first access point including multiple different interfaces to receive configuration information from a network monitoring node, said configuration information indicating communications failures said first access point is to monitor to detect, said configuration information from said network monitoring node indicating communications failures said first access point is to monitor for is provided on a per access point interface basis, said configuration information indicating communications failures said first access point is to monitor include one or more of: association failures, authentication failures, authorization failures, DHCP failures, and DNS look up failures; operating the first access point to receive, from the network monitoring node, information indicating a number of broadcast and multicast packets corresponding to a communications device to capture during an attempt by the communications device to achieve network connectivity; operating the first access point to capture packets corresponding to communications devices using said first access point; operating the first access point to monitor to detect communications failures corresponding to communications devices using said access point; and in response to detecting a communications failure corresponding to a first communications device, generating, at the first access point, an event failure notification indicating the type of detected failure; and sending, from the first access point, the event failure notification to the network monitoring node. <EOS>