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Running on Windows
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   :alt: Windows_72px.png
   :align: center

**It is NOT possible to generate Nmon data of a Windows machine!**

**But you can install and run the applications on Windows for different purposes:**

+----------------------+---------------------+------------------------+-------------------------+
| Splunk roles         | metricator-for-nmon | SA-metricator-for-nmon |  TA-metricator-for-nmon |
|                      |                     |                        |                         |
+======================+=====================+========================+=========================+
| Search head          |     X               |                        |                         |
+----------------------+---------------------+------------------------+-------------------------+
| Indexer              |                     |    X                   |                         |
+----------------------+---------------------+------------------------+-------------------------+
| Master node          |                     |                        |                         |
+----------------------+---------------------+------------------------+-------------------------+
| Deployment server    |                     | Conditional            |    Conditional          |
+----------------------+---------------------+------------------------+-------------------------+
| Heavy Forwarder      |                     | Conditional            |                         |
+----------------------+---------------------+------------------------+-------------------------+
| Universal Forwarder  |                     |                        |    X                    |
+----------------------+---------------------+------------------------+-------------------------+

* Using Windows as a deployment server to push applications to Unix/Linux based servers is strongly discouraged as required file permissions will be lost, and manual actions would be required

**If using ITSI, the ITSI module can be deployed on the ITSI Windows search head(s).**