salt.modules.event¶

Use the Salt Event System to fire events from the master to the minion and vice-versa.

salt.modules.event.fire(data, tag)¶

Fire an event on the local minion event bus. Data must be formed as a dict.

CLI Example:

salt '*' event.fire '{"data":"my event data"}' 'tag'

salt.modules.event.fire_master(data, tag, preload=None)¶

Fire an event off up to the master server

CLI Example:

salt '*' event.fire_master '{"data":"my event data"}' 'tag'