Client Management Methods

There are a number of ways that the Uyuni Server can communicate with clients. Which one you use depends on the type of client, and your network architecture:

Salt: is the default choice and recommended unless there are specific needs. For more information, see Contact Methods for Salt Clients.
Salt SSH: is useful only if network restrictions make it impossible for clients to establish contact to the server. This contact method has serious limitations. For more information, see Push via Salt SSH.
Salt Bundle: is a single binary package containing Salt Minion, Python 3, required Python modules, and libraries. Thus the connection method is independent from software installed on the client. For more information, see Salt Bundle.

The so-called traditional contact method is no longer supported with Uyuni 5.0 and later. Before upgrading from Uyuni 4 to 5, traditional clients and thus traditional proxies have to be migrated to Salt or replaced with Salt proxies.