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salt-call — Invoke salt locally on a salt minion. More information: <https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/ref/c

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Problem

How to use the salt-call command: Invoke salt locally on a salt minion. More information: <https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/ref/cli/salt-call.html>.

Solution

salt-call — Invoke salt locally on a salt minion. More information: <https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/ref/cli/salt-call.html>.

Perform a highstate on this minion:

salt-call state.highstate

Perform a highstate dry-run, compute all changes but don't actually perform them:

salt-call state.highstate test=true

Perform a highstate with verbose debugging output:

salt-call {{[-l|--log-level]}} debug state.highstate

List this minion's grains:

salt-call grains.items

Code Snippets

Perform a highstate on this minion

salt-call state.highstate

Perform a highstate dry-run, compute all changes but don't actually perform them

salt-call state.highstate test=true

Perform a highstate with verbose debugging output

salt-call {{[-l|--log-level]}} debug state.highstate

List this minion's grains

salt-call grains.items

Context

tldr-pages: common/salt-call

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