Arista EOS Salt minion installation guide¶

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.

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

veos#copy flash:salt-eos-latest.swix extension:

Install the SWIX

veos#extension salt-eos-latest.swix force

Verify the installation

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)

veos#bash vi /mnt/flash/startup.sh

Make sure you enable the eAPI with unix-socket

veos(config)#management api http-commands
         protocol unix-socket
         no shutdown

Post-installation tasks¶

Generate Keys and host record and start Salt minion

veos#bash
#sudo /mnt/flash/startup.sh

salt-minion should be running

Copy the installed extensions to boot-extensions

veos#copy installed-extensions boot-extensions

Apply event-handler to let EOS start salt-minion during boot-up

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 Configuring Salt.

Uninstalling¶

If you decide to uninstall this package, the following steps are recommended for safety:

1. Remove the extension from boot-extensions

veos#bash rm /mnt/flash/boot-extensions

2. Remove the extension from extensions folder

veos#bash rm /mnt/flash/.extensions/salt-eos-latest.swix

2. Remove boot-up script

veos(config)#no event-handler boot-up-script

Additional Information¶

This SWIX extension contains the following RPM packages:

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