HDFS sink to a remote HDFS node

I am trying to run the flume-ng agent on one node with an HDFS sink pointing to an HDFS filesystem on another node.
Is this possible? What packages/jar files are needed on the flume agent node for this to work? Secondary goal is to install only what is needed on the flume-ng node.

# Describe the sink
a1.sinks.k1.type = hdfs
a1.sinks.k1.hdfs.path = hdfs://<remote IP address>/tmp/

Thanks,
Ed