To work with Salt events, one of the most important aspects is to identify the type of Salt event. In this recipe, we will look at some of the Salt event types and how we can identify and work with them.
A preconfigured Python script is available to listen to Salt events continuously. Download the file from the following location on the Salt master and run it using the Python command:
[root@salt-master ~]# wget https://raw.github.com/saltstack/salt/develop/tests/eventlisten.py [root@salt-master ~]# python eventlisten.py
Configure a new minion and start the
salt-minionservice daemon on the minion.Observe the events being captured on the Salt master; there should be outputs as follows:
Event fired at Tue Feb 24 13:42:49 2015 ************************* Tag: salt/auth Data: {'_stamp': '2015-02-24T13:42:49.444198', 'act': 'accept', 'id': 'salt-minion', 'pub': '-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- \nMIICIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCA....==\n---...