salt-proxy

Receives commands from a Salt master and proxies these commands to devices that are unable to run a full minion.

Synopsis

salt-proxy [ options ]

Description

The Salt proxy minion receives commands from a Salt master, transmits appropriate commands to devices that are unable to run a minion, and replies with the results of said commands.

Options

--proxyid

The minion id that this proxy will assume. This is required.

--version

Print the version of Salt that is running.

--versions-report

Show program's dependencies and version number, and then exit

-h, --help

Show the help message and exit

-c CONFIG_DIR, --config-dir=CONFIG_dir

The location of the Salt configuration directory. This directory contains the configuration files for Salt master and minions. The default location on most systems is /etc/salt.

-u USER, --user=USER

Specify user to run salt-proxy

-d, --daemon

Run salt-proxy as a daemon

--pid-file PIDFILE

Specify the location of the pidfile. Default: /var/run/salt-proxy-<id>.pid

Logging Options

Logging options which override any settings defined on the configuration files.

-l LOG_LEVEL, --log-level=LOG_LEVEL

Console logging log level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error, quiet. Default: warning.

--log-file=LOG_FILE

Log file path. Default: /var/log/salt/minion.

--log-file-level=LOG_LEVEL_LOGFILE

Logfile logging log level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error, quiet. Default: warning.

See also

salt(1) salt(7) salt-master(1) salt-minion(1)