Posts made by QuixoticJustin

Oracle Linux has been added.

Today's work has been almost exclusively in OS detection and deployments. A lot of progress, though. We are able to support several more kinds of OSes today.

We have added PCLinuxOS - a Mandriva derivative that uses APT to manage RPM. Talk about complex.

We have added Sabayon Linux (a Gentoo derivative using the Entropy packaging system.)

We have added Solaris support!

Windows 8 & 8.1 added as working.

We have just added GeckoLinux to the support matrix!

@dafyre said in Installing SaltStack Salt-Minion to Solus Linux:

@quixoticjustin said in Installing SaltStack Salt-Minion to Solus Linux:

Solus Linux lacks a native package for SaltStack and so to use it as a Salt Minion you have to grab the packages from GitHub and create it yourself. Special thanks to @scottalanmiller who looked into this and Exoner4ted in the Solus community who did the research and figured out how to make this work.

Remember to change "saltmastip" to the actual IP of your salt master or handle that however makes sense for you.

cd /tmp; wget https://github.com/saltstack/salt/archive/2018.3.zip
unzip 2018.3.zip; cd /tmp/salt-2018.3/
python /root/salt-2018.3setup.py install
echo "saltmasterip salt" >> /etc/hosts
cp /root/salt-2018.3/pkg/salt-minion.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable salt-minion
eopkg install python-pyzmq pycrypto python-msgpack python-tornado python-jinja pyyaml
systemctl restart salt-minion

Unfortunately this package is not self updating.

Once you get the initial client installed, you should be able to to push out new salt-minion packages via Salt itself, right?

Yes, but not using a repo. So you'd need to build your own installer / updater inside of a Salt state. Totally possible, but not as simple as telling it to update.

Solus Linux lacks a native package for SaltStack and so to use it as a Salt Minion you have to grab the packages from GitHub and create it yourself. Special thanks to @scottalanmiller who looked into this and Exoner4ted in the Solus community who did the research and figured out how to make this work.

Remember to change "saltmastip" to the actual IP of your salt master or handle that however makes sense for you.

cd /tmp; wget https://github.com/saltstack/salt/archive/2018.3.zip
unzip 2018.3.zip; cd /tmp/salt-2018.3/
python /root/salt-2018.3setup.py install
echo "saltmasterip salt" >> /etc/hosts
cp /root/salt-2018.3/pkg/salt-minion.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable salt-minion
eopkg install python-pyzmq pycrypto python-msgpack python-tornado python-jinja pyyaml
systemctl restart salt-minion

Unfortunately this package is not self updating.

We have added Solus to our support matrix.

Would be pretty sweet to test something like SodiumSuite on this. Probably not good for the database, but could be really neat to see how the application front end would run there.

@tim_g said in I’d rather be....:

@coliver that looks fun!

Looks cold.

It's been a bit since we posted an update large enough to mention. This morning's update is quite large. Not in new features, but SodiumSuite is quite different this morning.

Two major new changes are now in the system:

1. Chat has been removed. I'll post more about this later, but the decision was to take IM communications in a new direction and as such the chat feature is no longer included in the SS system and is not on the pages.
2. The log out problem appears to have been fixed. This one has been a long time trying to track down. The system now should be able to keep people logged in for long periods of time with data regularly updating without any interaction needed.

The changes have also brought about significant performance improvements. Pages are certainly snappier today. And without the space used for chat, there is a lot more screen real estate for tickets, assets, or whatever you are viewing. Very helpful for those on smaller displays.

Sodium has some really basic pieces of that already built in using Salt. It's very early and definitely not where it should be, but it's Salt with a GUI that is specifically tackling this problem.

Rolling out changes to the agents deployment page. We are moving from downloads to command line installers. This should make installing far easier for most people. We have a new, single script for UNIX installers, including most Linux, so that you no longer need to track down a different install for each type.

Small update just deployed on Sodium.

And Happy Holidays, everyone!

Small update just rolled out. Focus is on some cleanup in helpdesk.

@dafyre said in Sodium Update:

@quixoticjustin said in Sodium Update:

We have new data collection to make troubleshooting networking issues easier. Now, in addition to the IPv4 address and the IPv6 addresses of a network connection, we not collect the Subnet Mask and the Default Gateway address as well. Now finding pesky misconfigurations will be that much easier.

One more useful tidbit on that screen... What DNS servers the client is using. This could be helpful. (Disclaimer: I haven't logged in yet to see the changes for myself).

Yes, that was requested but hasn't arrived yet. It should be getting added soon.

With today's release of SodiumSuite, you will find under an individual asset a tab called "DNS Alternative Info" (this will be renamed to something more obvious shortly) where you can enter individual hosts file entries. Maybe not super exciting as far as features go, but it is the first of our system management utilities being rolled out and we hope shows more of what there is to come.

Right now the management is by individual machine. But we are just in the first stages.

Hey there @openit glad that you are interested in SodiumSuite. The first management feature rolled out today. It's not much but it is a good preview of things to come, I think.