initial addition of event system minion module

salt/modules/event.py

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+'''
+Fire events on the minion, events can be fired up to the master
+'''
+# Import Salt libs
+import salt.crypt
+import salt.payload
+
+def fire_master(data, tag):
+    '''
+    Fire an event off on the master server
+    '''
+    serial = salt.payload.Serial(__opts__)
+    context = zmq.Context()
+    socket = context.socket(zmq.REQ)
+    socket.connect(__opts__['master_uri'])
+    load = {'id': self.id_,
+            'tag': tag,
+            'data': data,
+            'cmd': '_minion_event'}
+    auth = salt.crypt.SAuth(__opts__)
+    payload['load'] = auth.crypticle.dumps(load)
+    auth = salt.crypt.SAuth(__opts__)
+    socket.send(serial.dumps(payload))
+    return auth.crypticle.loads(serial.loads(socket.recv()))
+