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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @WLS-ITGuy
      last edited by

      @wls-itguy said in Can I use Sodium to monitor VPS?:

      @scottalanmiller said in Can I use Sodium to monitor VPS?:

      Try....

      systemctl start salt-minion
      

      Come on. It can't be that simple 😜

      It’s Linux. Often that simple.

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      • dafyreD
        dafyre
        last edited by dafyre

        You may also want to make sure it starts at boot...

        systemctl enable salt-minion

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          We should know for sure if it worked in nine minutes.

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          • WLS-ITGuyW
            WLS-ITGuy @scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in Can I use Sodium to monitor VPS?:

            We should know for sure if it worked in nine minutes.

            No change

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @WLS-ITGuy
              last edited by

              @wls-itguy said in Can I use Sodium to monitor VPS?:

              @scottalanmiller said in Can I use Sodium to monitor VPS?:

              We should know for sure if it worked in nine minutes.

              No change

              Is Salt running now?

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              • WLS-ITGuyW
                WLS-ITGuy
                last edited by

                root@www:~# ps aux | grep salt
                root      5205  0.0  0.0  12788  1028 pts/0    S+   16:59   0:00 grep salt
                root     19086  0.0  1.5 200900 63892 ?        Ss   Mar07   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                root     19106  0.0  1.9 622780 78756 ?        Sl   Mar07   2:54 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                root     19138  0.0  1.3 316196 56364 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                root@www:~#
                
                root@wls-online:~# ps aux | grep salt
                root      3923  0.0  0.2 200900 64112 ?        Ss   Mar07   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                root      3941  0.1  0.3 622776 78628 ?        Sl   Mar07   3:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                root      3976  0.0  0.2 316452 56520 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                root     15842  0.0  0.0  12788   944 pts/0    S+   16:58   0:00 grep salt
                root@wls-online:~#
                
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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  Okay. Hmmm.

                  First what does /etc/salt/minion contain?

                  My guess is an update was run and blew away the config. Some OSes mess with it relentlessly.

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                  • WLS-ITGuyW
                    WLS-ITGuy @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    @scottalanmiller

                    root@www:~# cd /etc/salt/
                    root@www:/etc/salt# ls
                    companyName.txt  minion  minion.d  minion_id  pki
                    root@www:/etc/salt# 
                    
                    
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                    • WLS-ITGuyW
                      WLS-ITGuy @WLS-ITGuy
                      last edited by

                      @wls-itguy said in Can I use Sodium to monitor VPS?:

                      @scottalanmiller

                      root@www:~# cd /etc/salt/
                      root@www:/etc/salt# ls
                      companyName.txt  minion  minion.d  minion_id  pki
                      root@www:/etc/salt# 
                      
                      

                      Says Minion is not a directory

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        You cat it to see the contents.

                        cat /etc/salt/minion
                        
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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @WLS-ITGuy
                          last edited by

                          @wls-itguy said in Can I use Sodium to monitor VPS?:

                          root@www:~# ps aux | grep salt
                          root      5205  0.0  0.0  12788  1028 pts/0    S+   16:59   0:00 grep salt
                          root     19086  0.0  1.5 200900 63892 ?        Ss   Mar07   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                          root     19106  0.0  1.9 622780 78756 ?        Sl   Mar07   2:54 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                          root     19138  0.0  1.3 316196 56364 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                          root@www:~#
                          
                          root@wls-online:~# ps aux | grep salt
                          root      3923  0.0  0.2 200900 64112 ?        Ss   Mar07   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                          root      3941  0.1  0.3 622776 78628 ?        Sl   Mar07   3:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                          root      3976  0.0  0.2 316452 56520 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                          root     15842  0.0  0.0  12788   944 pts/0    S+   16:58   0:00 grep salt
                          root@wls-online:~#
                          

                          If this is the Debian update bug, we are tackling it with this command. This is already built into newer installers because this bug is so broad.

                          echo "45.76.23.0 salt" >> /etc/hosts
                          
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                          • WLS-ITGuyW
                            WLS-ITGuy @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said in Can I use Sodium to monitor VPS?:

                            You cat it to see the contents.

                            cat /etc/salt/minion
                            
                            root@www:~# cat /etc/salt/minion
                            master: na1.waxquixotic.com
                            
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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @WLS-ITGuy
                              last edited by

                              @wls-itguy should be fine then. Shoot, okay, on to the next thing....

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                              • WLS-ITGuyW
                                WLS-ITGuy
                                last edited by

                                Just an update. Still not checking in.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  On those that are not working, what is the output of...

                                  systemctl status salt-minion
                                  
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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    The amount of problems we've found with salt-minion stability, it's a very real consideration to move away from salt. Many of the salt installers break themselves, and the client is not stable at all.

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                                    • WLS-ITGuyW
                                      WLS-ITGuy
                                      last edited by

                                      Server 1 (WWW)

                                      salt-minion.service - The Salt Minion
                                      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/salt-minion.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
                                      Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-03-12 13:46:45 CDT; 22h ago
                                      Main PID: 20625 (salt-minion)
                                      Tasks: 6 (limit: 4915)
                                      CGroup: /system.slice/salt-minion.service
                                      β”œβ”€20625 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                                      β”œβ”€20633 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                                      └─20636 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                                      
                                      Mar 12 13:46:45 www.wls.wels.net systemd[1]: Stopped The Salt Minion.
                                      Mar 12 13:46:45 www.wls.wels.net systemd[1]: Starting The Salt Minion...
                                      Mar 12 13:46:45 www.wls.wels.net systemd[1]: Started The Salt Minion.
                                      
                                      root@www:~# tail /var/log/salt/minion
                                      2018-03-12 08:24:49,348 [salt.utils.parsers][WARNING ][19106] Minion received a SIGTERM. Exiting.
                                      2018-03-12 13:46:45,753 [salt.utils.parsers][WARNING ][927] Minion received a SIGTERM. Exiting.
                                      
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                                      • WLS-ITGuyW
                                        WLS-ITGuy
                                        last edited by

                                        Server 2 (WLS-Online)

                                        
                                        root@wls-online:~# systemctl status salt-minion
                                        ● salt-minion.service - The Salt Minion
                                        Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/salt-minion.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
                                        Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-03-12 13:45:53 CDT; 22h ago
                                        Main PID: 8983 (salt-minion)
                                        Tasks: 6 (limit: 4915)
                                        CGroup: /system.slice/salt-minion.service
                                        β”œβ”€8983 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                                        β”œβ”€8986 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                                        └─8989 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                                        
                                        Mar 12 13:45:53 wls-online.net systemd[1]: Starting The Salt Minion...
                                        Mar 12 13:45:53 wls-online.net systemd[1]: Started The Salt Minion.
                                        
                                        root@wls-online:~# tail /var/log/salt/minion
                                        2018-03-12 08:42:59,773 [salt.utils.parsers][WARNING ][3941] Minion received a SIGTERM. Exiting.
                                        2018-03-12 13:45:52,866 [salt.utils.parsers][WARNING ][23026] Minion received a SIGTERM. Exiting.
                                        root@wls-online:~#
                                        
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                                        • WLS-ITGuyW
                                          WLS-ITGuy
                                          last edited by

                                          Server 3 (Ubuntu)

                                          salt-minion.service - The Salt Minion
                                          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/salt-minion.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
                                          Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-03-12 12:20:03 CDT; 23h ago
                                          Main PID: 9658 (salt-minion)
                                          Tasks: 7
                                          Memory: 74.6M
                                          CPU: 1min 36.709s
                                          CGroup: /system.slice/salt-minion.service
                                          β”œβ”€9658 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                                          └─9661 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion
                                          
                                          Mar 12 12:20:03 webinar systemd[1]: Started The Salt Minion.
                                          Mar 12 12:20:03 webinar salt-minion[9658]: [WARNING ] IMPORTANT: Do not use md5 hashing algorithm! Please set "hash_type" to SHA256 in Salt M
                                          
                                          root@webinar:~# tail /var/log/salt/minion
                                          2018-03-12 12:20:03,594 [salt.cli.daemons ][WARNING ][9661] IMPORTANT: Do not use md5 hashing algorithm! Please set "hash_type" to SHA256 in Salt Minion config!
                                          
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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            So one things we've discovered is that Linode's Debian 9 systems have remove UUIDGEN from them, for some reason. How annoying.

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