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I've downloaded the latest stable version of Nagios Core (4.3.2). I extracted the download and am left with a bunch of files that my PC doesn't recognize with folders containing more files that my PC doesn't recognize.

I went to the quick start link and I don't see any documentation for windows installations http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagi ... start.html , I only see post installation monitoring options for windows.

Is it possible to install Nagios Core on a Windows Server?

Nagios Core only natively installs and operates on Linux systems. If you wish to run it "on Windows" you will need to use something like VirtualBox or VMWare Player to install a virtual Linux machine, then you can install Nagios Core on that.

Do I need to be knowledgeable in linux when installing something like virtualbox, or does it come fairly ready to use "out of the box", to where I'd be able to load Nagios on it fairly easily..?

It would be useful to understand virtualization in general. High level overview type stuff though, nothing super specific.

Depending on the hypervisor you're using for your virtual machines (stuff like VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, etc), you could probably find a ready-to-go template for Nagios XI that fits your environment:
https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/

Though Nagios XI is only free to try. Nagios Core used to have a VM that was sold/distributed by Nagios Enterprises, but it has been discontinued.

Step 1 would be setting up a virtual machine. If you don't have experience with any of the aforementioned hypervisors, VirtualBox is free and relatively easy to navigate. If you don't particularly care what flavor of Linux you're using, I would recommend grabbing one of the minimal CentOS 7 images and using that to set up your virtual machine:
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/ ... l-1611.iso

Once the virtual machine is ready, there's plenty of guides on how to setup Nagios Core from a fresh copy of CentOS 7. I like DigitalOcean's:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... n-centos-7

I don't know anything about Docker on Windows other than...it's a thing.

If you know about docker, https://hub.docker.com/r/quantumobject/docker-nagios/ may be of interest.