Troubleshooting Salt Minion Beacons

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Josh Chu

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Sep 9, 2022, 11:03:26 PM9/9/22

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I'm running into an issue with beacons in my salt implementation where my minions (running on Windows machines, Salt version 3003.4) don't have any available beacons. IE. when I try to query beacons.list_available, I get an empty list:

----------

beacons:

----------

I can see the .py files for the beacons in the salt site-packages for these minions:

Directory of C:\salt\bin\Lib\site-packages\salt-3003.4-py3.7.egg\salt\beacons

06/29/2022 12:16 PM <DIR> .

06/29/2022 12:16 PM <DIR> ..

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 5,517 adb.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 1,497 aix_account.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 9,022 avahi_announce.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 8,726 bonjour_announce.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 8,909 btmp.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 6,126 cert_info.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 3,522 diskusage.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 2,002 glxinfo.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 3,193 haproxy.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 13,080 inotify.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 2,814 journald.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 760 junos_rre_keys.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 6,668 load.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 3,896 log_beacon.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 1,639 memusage.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 12,257 napalm_beacon.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 4,999 network_info.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 7,023 network_settings.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 2,725 pkg.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 1,552 proxy_example.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 2,366 ps.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 4,259 salt_monitor.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 1,917 salt_proxy.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 2,903 sensehat.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 6,569 service.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 3,276 sh.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 2,754 smartos_imgadm.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 3,530 smartos_vmadm.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 4,381 status.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 1,634 swapusage.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 2,654 telegram_bot_msg.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 2,892 twilio_txt_msg.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 5,206 watchdog.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 10,817 wtmp.py

02/28/2022 08:13 PM 18,369 __init__.py

06/29/2022 12:19 PM <DIR> __pycache__

35 File(s) 179,454 bytes

3 Dir(s) 69,554,495,488 bytes free

This leads me to believe I am passing in some incorrect parameters when starting up my minions. I'm working my way through the source code but was hoping someone has some quicker insights into where I should look. Thanks in advance!

Josh Chu

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Sep 13, 2022, 12:23:07 PM9/13/22

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When I run
```

sudo salt river-road-dental:DataSource-2791 cmd.run "salt-call --log-level=all --log-file=C:\\salt\\var\\log\\salt\\beacon.log beacons.list_available"

```

I end up with:
```
2022-09-12 20:19:22,894 [salt.utils.event :805 ][DEBUG ][4284] Sending event: tag = manage_beacons; data = {'func': 'list_available', '_stamp': '2022-09-13T00:19:22.894093'} 2 2022-09-12 20:19:22,894 [salt.transport.ipc:365 ][DEBUG ][4284] Closing IPCMessageClient instance 3 2022-09-12 20:19:22,894 [salt.utils.event :40 ][TRACE ][4284] Get event. tag: /salt/minion/minion_beacons_list_available_complete 4 2022-09-12 20:20:22,902 [salt.utils.event :40 ][TRACE ][4284] _get_event() waited 60.0 seconds and received nothing
```

Here is my versions report on my salt-master:
```

sh-4.2$ sudo salt-master --versions-report

Salt Version:

Salt: 3003.5

Dependency Versions:

cffi: 1.15.0

cherrypy: 5.6.0

dateutil: 2.7.3

docker-py: Not Installed

gitdb: Not Installed

gitpython: Not Installed

Jinja2: 2.7.2

libgit2: 1.4.3

M2Crypto: Not Installed

Mako: Not Installed

msgpack: 0.5.6

msgpack-pure: Not Installed

mysql-python: Not Installed

pycparser: 2.21

pycrypto: 2.6.1

pycryptodome: 3.6.1

pygit2: 1.9.2

Python: 3.7.10 (default, Jun 3 2021, 00:02:01)

python-gnupg: 0.4.4

PyYAML: 4.2

PyZMQ: 17.0.0

smmap: Not Installed

timelib: Not Installed

Tornado: 4.5.3

ZMQ: 4.2.3

System Versions:

dist: amzn 2

locale: UTF-8

machine: x86_64

release: 4.14.275-207.503.amzn2.x86_64

system: Linux

version: Amazon Linux 2

```

Salt minion:
```

sh-4.2$ sudo salt river-road-dental:DataSource-2791 cmd.run "salt-minion --versions-report"

river-road-dental:DataSource-2791:

Salt Version:

Salt: 3003.4

Dependency Versions:

cffi: 1.14.5

cherrypy: 18.6.0

dateutil: 2.8.1

docker-py: Not Installed

gitdb: 4.0.5

gitpython: Not Installed

Jinja2: 2.11.3

libgit2: Not Installed

M2Crypto: Not Installed

Mako: 1.1.4

msgpack: 1.0.2

msgpack-pure: Not Installed

mysql-python: Not Installed

pycparser: 2.20

pycrypto: Not Installed

pycryptodome: 3.9.8

pygit2: Not Installed

Python: 3.7.4 (tags/v3.7.4:e09359112e, Jul 8 2019, 20:34:20) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)]

python-gnupg: 0.4.6

PyYAML: 5.4.1

PyZMQ: 18.0.1

smmap: 3.0.4

timelib: 0.2.4

Tornado: 4.5.3

ZMQ: 4.3.1

System Versions:

dist:

locale: cp1252

machine: AMD64

release: 2016Server

system: Windows

version: 2016Server 10.0.14393 SP0

```

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