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title: Installing and configuring PingCentral
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# Installing and configuring PingCentral

Installation, upgrade, and configuration instructions are accessible from the links on this page.

## Installing PingCentral

* [Using Docker to deploy PingCentral](pingcentral_docker.html)

* [Installing PingCentral on Microsoft Windows](pingcentral_installing_pc_windows.html)

* [Installing PingCentral on Linux systems](pingcentral_installing_pc_linux.html)

* [PingCentral licensing](pingcentral_licensing.html)

* [Setting up MySQL](pingcentral_mysql.html)

* [Upgrading PingCentral](pingcentral_upgrading/pingcentral_upgrading_pc.html)

## Configuring PingCentral

* [Configuring PingCentral to run as a Windows service](pingcentral_conf_pc_windows.html)

* [Configuring PingCentral to run as a Linux systemv service](pingcentral_conf_pc_linux_systemv.html)

* [Configuring PingCentral to run as a Linux systemd service](pingcentral_conf_pc_linux_systemd.html)

* [Configuring PingCentral to run in FIPS-compliant mode](pingcentral_fips_mode.html)

* [Configuring logging](pingcentral_logging.html)

* [Configuring PingFederate and PingAccess for SSO](pingcentral_pf_pa_sso.html)

To avoid seeing a certificate warning when you access PingCentral, replace the user-facing SSL certificate so it will no longer use the self-signed certificate. Learn more about replacing it in [Replacing the Admin Console SSL Certificate](pingcentral_admin_ssl_cert.html).

The Spring Boot Actuator, enabled by default, collects a wide variety of information to help you monitor and manage PingCentral in production environments. Spring Metrics collects a large amount of data, but it does not present the data in ways that are easy to understand, so you might want to move this data to either a Prometheus or Graphite time series database and use Grafana to view it through interactive dashboards with charts and graphs. Learn more in [Monitoring PingCentral](../pingcentral_monitoring/pingcentral_monitoring_pc.html).