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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?

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The official answer:

salt-run manage.up

Also useful are:

salt-run manage.status

salt-run manage.down
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    "salt-run -d" Gives a full list of all the modules you can run with salt-run, well worth a read
    – Chris Huang-Leaver
    Oct 23, 2015 at 6:12
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    salt-run manage.versions is also quite useful (reports minions' running versions and compares them to the master's)
    – sxc731
    Nov 7, 2016 at 14:29
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    Note that salt-run manage.up and manage.status appears to do a test.ping under the hood. At least, when I ran manage.up, it showed on the minions logs as test.ping..... If you want to ensure it doesn't need to send anything, use alived or one of the other manage functions
    – sdfgeoff
    Apr 26, 2019 at 8:04
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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?".

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  • I think something must have changed /var/cache/salt/master/minions appears to be a non-existent location now, /etc/salt/pki/master/minions is still good to go.
    – Oly Dungey
    Nov 30, 2015 at 16:46
  • @OlyDungey Maybe it is distribution dependent. What Linux distribution were you using at that time ?
    – SebMa
    Sep 2, 2022 at 8:52
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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)

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

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    Thanks, but this lists accepted minion keys, not connected minions.
    – Petrus Theron
    Aug 28, 2013 at 9:37
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I think one can use the grains module to achieve this:

salt '*' grains.get id
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To make ping to all minions, try on salt master node: 

salt '*' test.ping
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    Have you read the question? It specifically is about alternatives to your method because this doesn't work in some cases.
    – Sven
    Jul 22, 2016 at 12:58

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