Salt Minion Problems
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Is the minion looking to the right master?
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Is the master's firewall ports open for Salt to be listening?
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@scottalanmiller said in Salt Minion Problems:
Is the minion looking to the right master?
how do I check these? I KNOW none of these commands and cant find one on the website
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@WrCombs by default a salt minion will try communicate with a master named salt.
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@WrCombs from your minion first try to ping your salt master by hostname so:
ping salt -
yes,
I read that part. -
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@WrCombs said in Salt Minion Problems:
@scottalanmiller said in Salt Minion Problems:
Is the minion looking to the right master?
how do I check these? I KNOW none of these commands and cant find one on the website
Well the instructions for what to open are here:
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Here is how to see the firewall rules for the public zone...
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@WrCombs said in Salt Minion Problems:
That looks wrong
That's going after the public master, not your own. -
That would explain it refusing the key, you are contacting a different Salt Master. You need to go into /etc/hosts and put in an entry for your own Salt master.
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@WrCombs said in Salt Minion Problems:
This is one of the reasons your salt-master doesn't register the minions key
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Did you follow the minion installation instructions? Setting "salt" in /etc/hosts was part of the instructions.
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@scottalanmiller yes.. but it wont let me said permission denied
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@WrCombs said in Salt Minion Problems:
@scottalanmiller yes.. but it wont let me said permission denied
What said that?
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@scottalanmiller said in Salt Minion Problems:
Did you follow the minion installation instructions? Setting "salt" in /etc/hosts was part of the instructions.
yeah. i did exactly as your instructions said to do
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@scottalanmiller said in Salt Minion Problems:
@WrCombs said in Salt Minion Problems:
@scottalanmiller yes.. but it wont let me said permission denied
What said that?
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@WrCombs you need a text editor to open the file
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@Romo said in Salt Minion Problems:
@WrCombs you need a text editor to open the file
a text editor?
