The return data from the Highstate command is a standard data structure which is parsed by the highstate outputter to deliver a clean and readable set of information about the HighState run on minions.
Two configurations can be set to modify the highstate outputter. These values can be set in the master config to change the output of the salt command or set in the minion config to change the output of the salt-call command.
The highstate outputter has five output modes, full, terse, mixed, changes and filter.
Example output:
myminion:
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ID: test.ping
Function: module.run
Result: True
Comment: Module function test.ping executed
Changes:
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ret:
True
Summary
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Succeeded: 1
Failed: 0
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Total: 0
The HighState Outputter is only meant to be used with the state.highstate function, or a function that returns highstate return data.
Docs for previous releases are available on readthedocs.org.
Latest Salt release: 2014.7.2