Contact Methods for Salt Clients
In most cases, Salt clients are registered accurately with the default bootstrap methods.
If you need to use Salt clients in a disconnected setup, you can configure Push via Salt SSH. In this environment, clients are located in a firewall-protected zone called DMZ. For more information about Salt SSH contact method, see Push via Salt SSH.
If you need to manually configure a Salt client to connect to the SUSE Manager Server, edit the Salt client configuration file with the correct network details. For more information about Salt minion configuration file contact method, see Register on the Command Line (Salt).
1. Onboarding Details
Salt has its own database to keep the keys for the minions. This needs to be kept in sync with the SUSE Manager database.
As soon as the key is accepted in Salt, the onboarding process in SUSE Manager starts.
The onboarding process will look for existing systems in the SUSE Manager database by searching for the minion_id and the machine-id.
If nothing is found, the new system gets created.
In case an entry with the minion_id or the machine-id is found, that system will be migrated to match the new system.
In case there is a match for both entries, and they are not the same system, the onboarding will be aborted with an error.
In this case the administrator needs to resolve the conflict by removing at least one of the systems.