Checking Salt services

In Cloudera on cloud (Cloudbreak), Salt operates with a master (usually on the gateway/management node) and minions (on all cluster nodes).

The salt-bootstrap process is the initial script that installs and configures these services.

On the Salt master (gateway node)

Confirm that the master process is running and accepting connections.

# Check service status
systemctl status salt-master

On the Salt minions (worker/compute nodes)

Confirm that the minion is running and connected to the master.

# Check service status
systemctl status salt-minion

# Perform a local 'ping' to the master to verify connectivity
source activate_salt_env
salt-call test.ping

Checking Salt-Bootstrap

salt-bootstrap is a wrapper script used during the provisioning phase. If a node fails to join the cluster during the Infrastructure Provisioning or Salt Bootstrap stage:

Confirm if the bootstrap process is still running with ps aux | grep salt-bootstrap.
Confirm service status with systemctl status salt-bootstrap.