Keep configuration in sync from master

[Juan Asensio Sánchez]

Hi

Hoy can I make the master appli a 'state.highstate' periodically? Just to test, I have put this in the master config file:

file_roots:

  base:

    - /srv/salt

schedule:

  overstate:

    function: state.over

    minutes: 30

This is /srv/salt/top.sls:

base:

  '*':

    - touch_test

And this is /srv/salt/touch_test/init.sls

date > /tmp/salt_run.txt:

  cmd.run

So, if I am rigth, as in the documentation (http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/jobs/schedule.html), every 30 minutes the /tmp/salt_run.txt should be updated. But not. It is done just if I run "salt '*' state.highstate'. I want to emulate the behaviour of Puppet. What am I doing wrong?

Regards and thanks in advance.

[Ethan Erchinger]

Try changing your schedule to use state.hightstate, instead of state.over.  Another method is to use a cron state which sets up a '*/30 * * * * salt-call state.highstate', I recommend redirecting output to a file or /dev/null as you'll get lots of email from cron otherwise.

[Juan Asensio Sánchez]

Hi again

I have changed state.over to state.highstate (in the master), but nothing happens (restarted salt-master). Is this a bug? Or am I confused? While, I will use the cron trick.

Regards.

2013/9/18 Ethan Erchinger <eth...@erchinger.org>

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[Juan Asensio Sánchez]

I just realized that salt-call is a command only available on the minions, but I want to fire the sync from the master, not from every client, just simulating a "salt '*' state.highstate". I don't want to do this in the minion to prevent someone modify the minion configuration and disable the conf sync (yes I know he can even uninstall the minion, but in that case, I would know it because the master gave me an error). Any idea?

2013/9/18 Juan Asensio Sánchez <oke...@gmail.com>

[Ethan Erchinger]

Yea, it might be a bug.  The scheduler has been broken in the past.  

If you need to use state.highstate from the master, you could also setup a cron job with the appropriate command on the master.

[nrb1]

Is this condition (that one has to schedule a cron job) still the case if one needs to schedule jobs from the master?