.. _install:

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Installation
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This chapter describes how to install your Centreon monitoring platform.

The monitoring platform may be installed in several ways. However, **we strongly recommend using Centreon ISO (ex CES) to install your platform**. Enjoy of our work of industrialization durinf install and update steps of your the environment. Also enjoy optimizations installed by default on the system.
Centreon Installation can be performed from source (tar.gz) but the work is more complex. In addition the installer shall be supported by the community.
Before installation, be sure to follow the prerequisites installation and sizing (resources CPU, memory, disks, partitioning, etc ...). Also take care to choose the type of architecture that should be set up for your needs.
Finally, you can install the platform.

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2

    prerequisites
    architecture/index
    downloads
    from_centreon
    from_packages
    from_VM
    from_sources
