How do I list all connected Salt Stack minions?

Question

Sometimes my saltmaster hangs for a while on salt '*' test.ping waiting for downed minions to reply. Is there a way so see a list of connected minions, regardless of whether they respond to test.ping?

Answer 1

The official answer:

salt-run manage.up

Also useful are:

salt-run manage.status

salt-run manage.down

Answer 2

From the master type:

ls -1 /var/cache/salt/master/minions

or:

ls -1 /etc/salt/pki/master/minions

Entering a faulty salt query (ex. salt '*' -) will also return a list of all the minions each followed by a message stating that the command is not available. You can grep/cut away the extraneous characters. Neither of these options are particularly elegant and the later doesn't address the timeout but it works while I'm looking for an answer to a similar question; "How to list all associated minions via the saltstack python api?".

Answer 3

There are few new commands that makes it much more easier,

salt-run manage.alived Print a list of all minions that are up according to Salt's presence detection (no commands will be sent to minions)

salt-run manage.allowed Print a list of all minions that are up according to Salt's presence detection (no commands will be sent to minions)

salt-run manage.not_alived Print a list of all minions that are NOT up according to Salt's presence detection (no commands will be sent)

salt-run manage.not_allowed Print a list of all minions that are NOT up according to Salt's presence detection (no commands will be sent)

salt-run manage.not_joined Print a list of all minions that are NOT up according to Salt's presence detection (no commands will be sent)

Answer 4

"salt-key -L" will list all minions that whose public keys you've accepted on your master.

Answer 5

I think one can use the grains module to achieve this:

salt '*' grains.get id

Answer 6

To make ping to all minions, try on salt master node:

salt '*' test.ping