salt-users@googlegroups.com discussions for November 2014

24	[salt-users] schedule possibly broken in 2014.7.0

Is the schedule in the minion config file broken in 2014.7.0? I have the following config: schedule: highstate: function: state.highstate minutes: 15 splay: - start: 74 # changes on each minion - ...

Warren Turkal
Nov 25, 2014 at 12:10 am
Nov 26, 2014 at 1:13 am

15	[salt-users] [RFC] A monitoring solution based on the powers of Salt

Hey Salt users, I'm going to work on a monitoring solution that uses Salt to execute checks using Salt's execution modules and returning data to a data store like Elasticsearch. The idea is to make ...

Arnold Bechtoldt
Nov 1, 2014 at 11:02 am
Nov 5, 2014 at 4:48 pm

12	[salt-users] library for sls written in python

hello, I'm using more and more python in my state description (sls). Having duplicate code, I was wondering how I could move this code in a library (like module in python). cED -- You received this ...

Cédric BRINER
Nov 19, 2014 at 10:54 am
Nov 20, 2014 at 3:36 pm

11	[salt-users] pkg.install on 2014.7.0rc7

I was trying out 2014.7.0rc7 and for some reason I don't have pkg.install. I have been running 2014.1.13 successfully on openSUSE 13.1 and to try out the new version I installed it into a user ...

Dietrich, Paul
Nov 4, 2014 at 1:54 pm
Nov 4, 2014 at 9:49 pm

9	[salt-users] Monitoring SaltStack

Is there anything out there to monitor SaltStack installations besides halite? I have it installed but it's not really what we are looking for. It would be nice if we could have a web gui or even a ...

Steven Marshall
Nov 4, 2014 at 11:30 pm
Feb 24, 2015 at 6:33 pm

9	[salt-users] salt-minion causing slow bootup on OS X 10.9 and 10.10

I have been using Salt to manage Mac clients for about a year now, and we have had this persistent issue, with 10.9 (and it is affecting 10.10 as well) Macs, that appears to be caused by the ...

Jesse Mcconathy
Nov 7, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Dec 15, 2014 at 10:21 pm

9	[salt-users] salt-cloud + vsphere: long startup

Hi, I am running salt-cloud + vsphere on CentOS 6.6 ( salt-cloud 2014.7.0 (Helium) ) and I have some really long startup times - around 5 minutes before any activity starts. For example: 2014-11-27 ...

Nikita Bochenko
Nov 27, 2014 at 1:28 pm
Dec 11, 2014 at 9:11 am

8	[salt-users] 2014.1.13 package for armhf debian

Hi, I'm using salt-minion on both wheezy amd64 and wheezy armhf systems, but the salt-minion package version available is different for each architecture: - amd64: 2014.1.13+ds-1~bpo70+1 - armhf ...

Bruno binet
Nov 19, 2014 at 10:28 am
Dec 18, 2014 at 8:01 am

8	[salt-users] 2014.7.0 Issue with external auth in LocalClient?

Hi, Please could anybody advise on why this might occur and any possible differences between 2014.1.13 and 2014.7.0 (using deb packages from ...

ScottW
Nov 26, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Dec 5, 2014 at 5:33 pm

8	[salt-users] Ubuntu 14.04.1; Salt-master problems when some packages are upgraded

Hi all! It seems that salt-master breaks when I run a clean install and run `pkg.upgrade`. I can make the system work back up by downgrading the specific packages, but I thought you should know about ...

Renoir Boulanger
Nov 23, 2014 at 9:23 pm
Nov 24, 2014 at 4:09 pm

8	[salt-users] Using postgres for salt job history

Hi salt-users, We've been using salt now for a while in a large setup and one thing we've been running into is that "salt-run jobs.list_jobs" starts to really struggle when it has to deal with the ...

Gideon Redelinghuys
Nov 5, 2014 at 7:04 pm
Nov 11, 2014 at 7:33 am

7	[salt-users] About RAET Firewall

From the discussion regarding RAET firewall, it seems like salt master needs to open 4506 and 4510 UDP port. And salt minion send message via 4510 port. Below is the two question. 1. Do we need to ...

Xiangjun Wu
Nov 28, 2014 at 12:50 am
Dec 8, 2014 at 8:37 pm

7	[salt-users] Compound mine matching in 2014.7

I was looking at the release notes for 2014.7 and noticed this: "Compound/pillar matching have been temporarily disabled for the mine and publish modules for this release due to the possibility of ...

Andrew Vant
Nov 13, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Nov 16, 2014 at 6:36 pm

7	[salt-users] [Newbie question] Using cmd.retcode in a SLS file

Hi, I'd like to write a SLS for following situation.I want to call 'svn info' for creating the default subversion configuration in user land. When 'svn info' runs outside a subversion project, it ...

Sandra Kosmalla
Nov 3, 2014 at 2:41 pm
Nov 5, 2014 at 6:13 pm

7	[salt-users] Hydrogen release update?

I saw a post from Thomas Hatch in mid October saying rc4 was just coming out, and he wrote that he hoped that would be the final release candidate. Two days ago rc7 was tagged. Is there a feeling of ...

Geoffc17
Nov 3, 2014 at 3:23 am
Nov 5, 2014 at 12:59 am

6	[salt-users] Working with zip-files and Windows minions

Hello! I have been playing around with SaltStack a lot recently and I really enjoying it. Thanks! This is a really simple "issue", but I just want to know how you "should think" in this situation or ...

Daniel Matsson
Nov 9, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Jul 24, 2015 at 5:17 am

6	[salt-users] salt-cloud + vsphere

Hi , I just upgraded my saltstack environment to Helium on my trusty and wanted to test the latest vmware capabilities . I get the follwing message for a simple test. salt-cloud --version salt-cloud ...

T10tennn
Nov 21, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Nov 22, 2014 at 10:22 am

6	[salt-users] Licensing concerns about 0MQ protocol ?

Hi Can someone explain why there is licensing concern about zeroMQ protocol ? R1: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/transports/raet/index.html tj -- You received this message because you are ...

T.J. Yang
Nov 12, 2014 at 12:52 pm
Nov 19, 2014 at 12:34 pm

6	[salt-users] sensitive files as pillar data

Hi all, I need to serve private key files to various minions, but keep each minion's files private from other minions. Is it possible to encapsulate entire files as pillar data? That way the "file" ...

Tom Meumann
Nov 16, 2014 at 8:03 pm
Nov 18, 2014 at 7:52 pm

5	[salt-users] Salt state examples/tips with Windows...

Some of the things I want to do include (based on the windows version): - Registry updates: - set the "auto login" registry settings - Disable windows update (specifically to control which IE browser ...

Jeff
Nov 11, 2014 at 6:17 pm
May 15, 2015 at 12:02 pm

5	[salt-users] Unable to refresh_modules during highstate

In a minion's highstate, a module dependency is installed (docker-py for the dockerio module). Later in the highstate, I want to use docker.pulled, but it's unavailable. I've tried forcing a ...

Aaron Bell
Nov 6, 2014 at 11:48 pm
Jan 9, 2015 at 7:35 pm

5	[salt-users] docker-py egg and chicken problem

Hello, I'd like to use the docker support of salt, but it requires docker-py from either pip or apt. The problem is that when the state runs is will install docker-py but my docker.pulled state will ...

Sebastien Estienne
Nov 26, 2014 at 8:16 am
Dec 9, 2014 at 10:13 pm

5	[salt-users] Dealing with a root_squash NFS mount

I need Salt to update a root_squash NFS mount. The NFS server is a NAS appliance, so I can't put Salt there. I have to update it from the NFS client machines. Those minions must also make ...

Adam Mendlik
Nov 11, 2014 at 5:13 pm
Dec 8, 2014 at 7:35 pm

5	[salt-users] simple way to use github salt-formulas

Hello, I would like to enable salt-formula on github but it seems I am missing something. To do so, here is what I did: 1) I added this to my master config: fileserver_backend: - git gitfs_remotes: - ...

Mathieu Drapeau
Nov 25, 2014 at 2:57 pm
Nov 26, 2014 at 4:53 pm

5	[salt-users] Problem with salt-cloud and VPC in EC2

I'm having what's most likely a dumb issue. When I try to use salt-cloud to create a new ec2 instance in a VPC. The instance creates with the correct subnet and security group, but it never names ...

Brett Swaim
Nov 23, 2014 at 5:08 pm
Nov 24, 2014 at 4:48 pm

5	[salt-users] New user - is salt the right sort of tool for me?

I wonder if anyone could help. I'm trying to find a tool to simplify some work I'm trying to do, and CM tools in general (and salt in particular) seem like they would be a good fit. But there's a lot ...

Paul Moore
Nov 21, 2014 at 6:20 pm
Nov 22, 2014 at 3:21 pm

5	[salt-users] salt_auto_order not working

Hi, Below are my salt versions root@bantu:~# salt-master --version salt-master 2014.1.10 (Hydrogen) root@openstack:~# salt-minion --version salt-minion 2014.1.13 (Hydrogen) I am using ubuntu server ...

Akilesh K
Nov 11, 2014 at 5:13 am
Nov 21, 2014 at 6:51 pm

5	[salt-users] Override global pillars values for certain minions

Hello I defined pillars applied to all my minions, however there are some pillars for which I’d like a few minions of have a different value of the data. Here is a use case: I set Nagios NRPE ...

Falzon.marc
Nov 12, 2014 at 3:04 pm
Nov 14, 2014 at 3:49 pm

5	[salt-users] Saltstack 2014.7 HUGE errors

I have upgraded to 2014.7 using pip install. I've had no problems until I tried to run some states... I don't know why but none of them compile. I'm getting this generic error: Data failed to ...

Anna Berruezo
Nov 5, 2014 at 12:15 pm
Nov 6, 2014 at 8:55 am

4	[salt-users] salt-call verbosity

Hello! I am currently learning to use Salt and I'm using masterless setup for development purposes (so I use salt-call) I'd like to know whether it's possible to reduce salt-call verbosity. By ...

Sławomir Kowalski
Nov 26, 2014 at 11:31 am
Dec 4, 2014 at 11:01 pm

4	[salt-users] windows minion installer 2014.7.0 broken? no services entry created and no key produced?

I have installed the latest windows minion 2014.7.0 and the installation went without any issues. At end of installation I confirmed for it to start the salt-minion service. But I get no key ...

Urs Rau
Nov 25, 2014 at 9:37 am
Dec 4, 2014 at 10:51 pm

4	[salt-users] lspci on windows?

I've started to configure some Windows machines and found that currently Salt seems to completely ignore any calls for determining GPU data, mostly due to lspci not existing (by default) on windows ...

Travis Best
Nov 19, 2014 at 9:26 pm
Nov 27, 2014 at 11:44 pm

4	[salt-users] salstack + foreman what is the status ?

Hi , I 'm just getting started on a project which uses foreman (+ puppet) . Just wanted to know if others are using Foreman + Salt ? If yes , how good or bad the support is .. ? -- You received this ...

T10tennn
Nov 21, 2014 at 10:07 am
Nov 25, 2014 at 10:00 am

4	[salt-users] RAET not working?

I tried to give the new transport a shot... added : "transport: raet" in both /etc/master on the master, and /etc/minion on both the master and the one node am testing with... I restarted master and ...

Mohamed Lrhazi
Nov 9, 2014 at 8:26 am
Nov 20, 2014 at 11:29 pm

4	[salt-users] salt-cloud -Q / -S / -F \| salt-cloud json output inconsistent

hi all, am trying to use salt cloud to filter out machines before I parse the JSON (only required as when I create instances with --out=json, I do not get the JSON back for the instances created) so ...

Alex Leonhardt
Nov 20, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Nov 20, 2014 at 4:08 pm

4	[salt-users] tomcat manager is not ready

I have just installed a new salt minion and master salt-common (2014.7.0+ds-2~bpo70+1 Debian Salt Backporting:debian.saltstack.com [all]) salt-master (2014.7.0+ds-2~bpo70+1 Debian Salt ...

Paul Reinking
Nov 19, 2014 at 4:56 pm
Nov 19, 2014 at 9:50 pm

4	[salt-users] Having multiple grain files. Is it possible

How can I include or call files that contains grains in the main grains or minion files ? Or I am obliged to keep everything in minion and grains file under /etc/salt/grains|minion ? Thanks. -- You ...

EL Amri Aymen
Nov 14, 2014 at 2:03 pm
Nov 18, 2014 at 3:19 am

4	[salt-users] New saltstack-formula to install/configure mailcatcher

Hi there-- I've created a new mailcatcher-formula to install/configure http://mailcatcher.me https://github.com/xclusv/mailcatcher-formula How do I contribute this to the saltstack-formulas org? ...

Ross Perkins
Nov 11, 2014 at 7:43 pm
Nov 12, 2014 at 3:18 pm

4	[salt-users] ENC parameters - how to access

Hi, I have an external node classifier returning data as shown below. In sls and template files I have tried '{{ vim_new_value }}' and '{{ vim_test_value }}' but for each I get '<variable is ...

Mark Clarkson
Nov 11, 2014 at 12:29 pm
Nov 11, 2014 at 5:09 pm

4	[salt-users] file.recurse fails intermittently when run on more the 1 minion simultaneously (2014.1.10 on SLES 11 x64)

Dear group, I'm repeatedly running into problems with the salt fileserver. Consider the following state: sap_adapter.libs download libraries: file.recurse: - name: {{ domain_home }}/lib - source ...

Ulli Keuthe
Nov 10, 2014 at 10:53 am
Nov 11, 2014 at 1:55 pm

4	[salt-users] Pillar merging in 2014.7

I was looking forward to 2014.7 release as I believed it would bring in ability to merge pillars, like in https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/3991#issuecomment-35486558 and ...

Viq
Nov 4, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Nov 6, 2014 at 5:17 pm

4	[salt-users] state module with arguments

Is it possible to have a state module accept arguments on the command line? I am thinking of a custom module requiring arguments which change often. So there is no way of having them in the state ...

Nrb1
Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 pm
Nov 5, 2014 at 3:50 pm

4	[salt-users] Managing passwords with SaltStack

I have been working with a few monitoring setups (collectd, snmpd) that require a password on the client. What I have wondered is if I could get saltstack to generate a password for each host, and ...

Phoenix
Nov 1, 2014 at 6:02 pm
Nov 2, 2014 at 9:00 pm

3	[salt-users] errors while running salt

I am running salt 2014.7.0-3 from epel6 repo. When I run this command: salt -b 2 '*' saltutil.refresh_pillar I get the following backtrace on some machine: [ERROR ] Salt request timed out. If this ...

Warren Turkal
Nov 24, 2014 at 9:54 pm
May 12, 2015 at 8:29 pm

3	[salt-users] salt-api missing in debian 2014.7 packages

Howdy all, Now that 2014.7 has been released, I've been testing it out, but have run into a problem. Should there be a salt-api package? If not, what needs to be done to startup the salt api? I've ...

Christian McHugh
Nov 20, 2014 at 4:36 am
Jan 1, 2015 at 7:20 pm

3	[salt-users] How do I know if highstate worked?

Sorry if this has been asked before, I didn't find any answers, only questions. I'm running a master-minion setup. There are currently only ~ 20 minions but I expect this to increase several orders ...

Ross Perkins
Nov 17, 2014 at 5:35 pm
Dec 5, 2014 at 6:18 pm

3	[salt-users] Running Salt-Master in a Docker Container

Hello! I am going to be using Docker more in the future, and thought about running salt-master in a Docker container. I am aware that Docker complicates things (this issue is a good example ...

Luminous Salt
Nov 29, 2014 at 5:45 pm
Dec 5, 2014 at 8:46 am

3	[salt-users] Salt request timed out (error) - Salt 2014.7.0

Hello, I recently upgraded Salt server and all minions from - salt-2014.1.7 to salt-2014.7.0 Since this update, Ive been seeing much higher CPU load on the salt server and after a while the CPU ...

Aled Jones
Nov 26, 2014 at 8:09 am
Dec 4, 2014 at 10:40 pm

3	[salt-users] deferencing local variable in file.replace

The opening curly braces in the local variable get interpreted as the pid in the replacement pattern. I am attempting to replace a string "url=http://localhost" with a string which uses the local ...

Rohit Sood
Nov 28, 2014 at 1:43 pm
Nov 30, 2014 at 11:39 pm

3	[salt-users] Chaining jinja to py renderer

I am trying to chain a templating renderer (jinja) to python renderer. It looks like jinja renderer executes fine but python renderer operates again on the raw file instead of the output produced by ...

John S.
Nov 21, 2014 at 6:46 pm
Nov 25, 2014 at 7:13 pm

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