# Quickstart Installation Guides

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See Also: Upgrading Nagios, Configuration Overview, Security Considerations

Introduction

These quickstart guides are intended to provide you with simple instructions on how to install Nagios from source (code) and have it monitoring your local machine inside of 20 minutes. No advanced installation options are discussed here - just the basics that will work for 95% of users who want to get started.

Guides

Quickstart installation guides are currently available for the following Linux distributions:

- Fedora Quickstart
- openSUSE Quickstart
- Ubuntu Quickstart

You can also find additional quickstart guides on the NagiosCommunity.org wiki. Can't find a quickstart for your particular OS? Write one and post it to the wiki for others!

If you are installing Nagios on an operating system or Linux distribution that isn't listed above, read the Fedora quickstart for an overview of what you'll need to do. Command names, paths, etc. vary widely across different OSes/distributions, so you'll likely need to tweak the installation docs a bit to work for your particular case.

Post-Installation Modifications

Once you get Nagios installed and running properly, you'll no doubt want to start monitoring more than just your local machine. Check out the following docs for how to go about monitoring other things...

- Monitoring Windows machines
- Monitoring Linux/Unix machines
- Monitoring Netware servers
- Monitoring routers/switches
- Monitoring network printers
- Monitoring publicly available services (HTTP, FTP, SSH, etc.)