FAQ
Collection of answers to Frequently Asked Question
How to refresh Nornir Proxy Pillar?
Calling pillar.refresh
will not update running Nornir instance. Instead, after
updating pillar on salt-master, to propagate updates to proxy-minion process either
of these will work:
restart Nornir proxy-minion process e.g.
systemctl restart salt-proxy@nrp1.service
run
salt nrp1 nr.nornir refresh
command to re-initialize Nornir
where nrp1
- Nornir Proxy minion id/name.
How to target individual hosts behind nornir proxy minion?
To address individual hosts targeting, Nornir filtering capabilities utilized using additional
filtering functions, reference nornir-salt module
FFun function for more
information. But in short have to use Fx
parameters to filter hosts, for example:
# target only IOL1 and IOL2 hosts:
salt nrp1 nr.cli "show clock" FB="IOL[12]"