Nagios Support Forum

The community provided documentation on installing NSCA states:

Prerequisites
-Nagios should be previously installed and configured

I understand this is needed on the server.

When installing on the client, do I actually need to install nagios, or if I remember correctly as is the case with nrpe, just the nagios addons, and then install nsca?

Thanks for any guidance.

--Bruce D. Meyer

It's very similar to NRPE, you will configure the NSCA daemon on the Nagios server and distribute the send_nsca and send_nsca.cfg to your remote servers, no need to install Nagios everywhere.

Thank you,
Do I need to isntall the nagios_plugins on the clients getting nsca?

--Bruce

Yes, any plugins you plan to use should be installed on the clients.

Thank-you.
--Bruce

No problem. Don't be afraid to post here again if you have trouble setting it up.