Reference Manual
- About This Guide
- 1 Available Documentation
- 2 Feedback
- 3 Documentation Conventions
- 4 Special SUSE Manager Documentation Conventions
- 5 Overview and Navigation
- 6 Navigation
- 7 Systems
- 8 Autoinstallation
- 9 Salt
- 10 Images
- 11 Patches
- 12 Software
- 13 Audit
- 14 System Security via OpenSCAP
- 15 Configuration
- 16 Schedule
- 17 Users
- 18 Admin
- 19 Help
9 Salt
Open the menu on the left bar. provides an overview of your Salt minions (clients). Use to execute remote commands on your Salt minions. You can also define a for creating a collection of salt system states.
9.1 Keys #
The page provides a summary of your minions, including their names, fingerprints, state, and actions you may perform on them.
Once you have pointed a minion to the SUSE Manager server as its master within /etc/salt/minion, you can choose to accept or reject a minion from this page. Either click the check mark or cross in the actions column.
Figure 9.1: Keys Overview #
For more information about key handling and onboarding, see Section 5.5, “Registering Salt Clients”.
9.2 Remote Commands #
The remote commands page allows you to execute and run commands from the SUSE Manager server on several minions.
Figure 9.2: Remote Commands #
Warning: Remote Commands Security
All commands run from the
page are executed as root
on minions.
As you may use wildcards to run commands across any number of systems you must always take extra precaution as this may have drastic consequences for your systems.
On the page located under › you will see two text boxes. The first box is for entering commands. The second box is for targeting minions by name, group or by using wildcards.
Input a command you want to execute, add a target minion, group or wildcard you want to execute the command on. Select the button to verify which machines will be targeted. Select the button to execute a command on selected systems.
9.3 Formula Catalog #
The feature is a technology preview.