salt.modules.event

Use the Salt Event System to fire events from the master to the minion and vice-versa.

salt.modules.event.fire(data, tag)

Fire an event on the local minion event bus. Data must be formed as a dict.

CLI Example:

salt '*' event.fire '{"data":"my event data"}' 'tag'
salt.modules.event.fire_master(data, tag, preload=None)

Fire an event off up to the master server

CLI Example:

salt '*' event.fire_master '{"data":"my event data"}' 'tag'

Current Salt release: 2014.1.6

Docs for previous releases on salt.rtfd.org.

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