How To Install nsca on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install nsca on CentOS 7. nsca is Nagios Service Check Acceptor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nsca on CentOS 7.

What is nsca

The purpose of this addon is to allow you to execute Nagios/NetSaint plugins on a remote host in as transparent a manner as possible.

We can use yum or dnf to install nsca on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nsca.

Install nsca on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install nsca using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nsca

Install nsca on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install nsca using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nsca

How To Uninstall nsca on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the nsca package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nsca

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nsca on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.