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Arista EOS Salt minion installation guide
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The Salt minion for Arista EOS is distributed as a SWIX extension and can be installed directly on the switch. The EOS network operating system is based on old Fedora distributions and the installation of the ``salt-minion`` requires backports. This SWIX extension contains the necessary backports, together with the Salt basecode.
.. note::
This SWIX extension has been tested on Arista DCS-7280SE-68-R, running EOS 4.17.5M and vEOS 4.18.3F.
Important Notes
===============
This package is in beta, make sure to test it carefully before running it in production.
If confirmed working correctly, please report and add a note on this page with the platform model and EOS version.
If you want to uninstall this package, please refer to the uninstalling_ section.
Installation from the Official SaltStack Repository
===================================================
Download the swix package and save it to flash.
.. code-block:: bash
veos#copy https://salt-eos.netops.life/salt-eos-latest.swix flash:
veos#copy https://salt-eos.netops.life/startup.sh flash:
Install the Extension
=====================
Copy the Salt package to extension
.. code-block:: bash
veos#copy flash:salt-eos-latest.swix extension:
Install the SWIX
.. code-block:: bash
veos#extension salt-eos-latest.swix force
Verify the installation
.. code-block:: bash
veos#show extensions | include salt-eos
salt-eos-2017-07-19.swix 1.0.11/1.fc25 A, F 27
Change the Salt master IP address or FQDN, by edit the variable (SALT_MASTER)
.. code-block:: bash
veos#bash vi /mnt/flash/startup.sh
Make sure you enable the eAPI with unix-socket
.. code-block:: bash
veos(config)#management api http-commands
protocol unix-socket
no shutdown
Post-installation tasks
=======================
Generate Keys and host record and start Salt minion
.. code-block:: bash
veos#bash
#sudo /mnt/flash/startup.sh
``salt-minion`` should be running
Copy the installed extensions to boot-extensions
.. code-block:: bash
veos#copy installed-extensions boot-extensions
Apply event-handler to let EOS start salt-minion during boot-up
.. code-block:: bash
veos(config)#event-handler boot-up-script
trigger on-boot
action bash sudo /mnt/flash/startup.sh
For more specific installation details of the ``salt-minion``, please refer to :ref:`Configuring Salt<configuring-salt>`.
.. _uninstalling:
Uninstalling
============
If you decide to uninstall this package, the following steps are recommended for safety:
1. Remove the extension from boot-extensions
.. code-block:: bash
veos#bash rm /mnt/flash/boot-extensions
2. Remove the extension from extensions folder
.. code-block:: bash
veos#bash rm /mnt/flash/.extensions/salt-eos-latest.swix
2. Remove boot-up script
.. code-block:: bash
veos(config)#no event-handler boot-up-script
Additional Information
======================
This SWIX extension contains the following RPM packages:
.. code-block:: text
libsodium-1.0.11-1.fc25.i686.rpm
libstdc++-6.2.1-2.fc25.i686.rpm
openpgm-5.2.122-6.fc24.i686.rpm
python-Jinja2-2.8-0.i686.rpm
python-PyYAML-3.12-0.i686.rpm
python-babel-0.9.6-5.fc18.noarch.rpm
python-backports-1.0-3.fc18.i686.rpm
python-backports-ssl_match_hostname-3.4.0.2-1.fc18.noarch.rpm
python-backports_abc-0.5-0.i686.rpm
python-certifi-2016.9.26-0.i686.rpm
python-chardet-2.0.1-5.fc18.noarch.rpm
python-crypto-1.4.1-1.noarch.rpm
python-crypto-2.6.1-1.fc18.i686.rpm
python-futures-3.1.1-1.noarch.rpm
python-jtextfsm-0.3.1-0.noarch.rpm
python-kitchen-1.1.1-2.fc18.noarch.rpm
python-markupsafe-0.18-1.fc18.i686.rpm
python-msgpack-python-0.4.8-0.i686.rpm
python-napalm-base-0.24.3-1.noarch.rpm
python-napalm-eos-0.6.0-1.noarch.rpm
python-netaddr-0.7.18-0.noarch.rpm
python-pyeapi-0.7.0-0.noarch.rpm
python-salt-2017.7.0_1414_g2fb986f-1.noarch.rpm
python-singledispatch-3.4.0.3-0.i686.rpm
python-six-1.10.0-0.i686.rpm
python-tornado-4.4.2-0.i686.rpm
python-urllib3-1.5-7.fc18.noarch.rpm
python2-zmq-15.3.0-2.fc25.i686.rpm
zeromq-4.1.4-5.fc25.i686.rpm