trol agents must be able to change structure and parameters of the objects under remote control. The national telecommunications system of Moldova comprises three international stations and over 50 regional intermediate or terminal analog/digital stations. The regional stations are connected by copper, optical and radio-relay wireless links. Each network node is equipped with TMN's local-area networks, with Windows NT-based servers, Microsoft SQL servers and control and monitoring agents for 14 Web-based Telecommunications Systems Management implementing FCAPS management functions. Most agents are implemented as ActiveX components of types: automation servers automation controllers controls COM objects documents containers. Performance management agents are software modules working as services which can generate time-scheduled and on-request information messages, formatted as SQL statements and/or Dynamic HTML pages that can be read by any ActiveX- enabled web browser. Performance management agents are able to monitor both in tabular and graphical form information on network traffic using different time bases, statistics of successful and unsuccessful call requests and traffic overloads. Fault management agents can detect abnormal situations in the network. They can seek and inform of network-generated alarms, localise faults, and begin the search for the source of the fault by narrowing down the area from which the fault could possibly have originated using techniques such as alarm correlation. They can also initiate trouble-handling sequences, such as the issuing of work orders, gener- ate reports on fault statistics and start recovery and initialization procedures. Configuration management agents put objects into service and remove them from service. They install new objects, remove outdated and defective objects and pro- vide connectivity re-routing when exceptions are encountered, such as a cable break or power failure in a router. The network under management is presented in the form of a database. The user