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Salt IPS Packages for Solaris 11
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Version: 2019.2.6
Date: 2020-08-25

To Install:
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Salt is installed mainly into the /opt/salt directory. Wrapper scripts for
the command-line interfaces are installed in the /usr/bin directory (see the
"Usage on Solaris" section below).

1. Download appropriate p5p archive from http://enterprise.saltstack.com/downloads
for your OS version.

2. Using the example commands below for Intel, install Salt from the p5p archive.

pkg install -g file:///<path to p5p archive>/salt-2019.2.6_solaris11_i386.p5p library/python/salt-minion

3. Disable the salt-minion, it is automatically started when installed

svcadm disable salt-minion

4. Edit the salt-minion configuration file for your environment:

vim /opt/local/etc/salt/minion

5. Enable the salt-minion, initially by running the command:

svcadm enable salt-minion

6. The salt-minion can be enabled and disabled by the following commands:

svcadm enable salt-minion
svcadm disable salt-minion



To Uninstall:
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1. Run the following commands:

pkg uninstall library/python/salt-minion



Usage on Solaris 11
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Wrapper scripts are provided to access the Salt command-line interfaces. These
wrapper scripts execute with environmental variable overrides for library and
python paths. These wrapper scripts are provided in /usr/bin, which is typically
included in the environmental variable PATH.

The following wrapper scripts are available:

  salt-ssh
  salt-proxy
  salt-minion


Note: with this release only salt-minion functionality is provided

Salt command line functionality is available through the use of
these wrapper scripts. For example, to start the salt-minion as a daemon:

svcadm enable salt-minion