List minions

List all minions that are up

salt-run manage.up

List all unresponsive or down minions

salt-run manage.down [removekeys=True]

Note: if (the optional) removekeys is used, it removes the minion from the master’s accepted list

List all minions accepted by the master

salt-key -L

This command list all minions, independent of their up/down status


Add ssh public key to a user’s authorized_keys

salt '<host>' ssh.set_auth_key <user> '<key>' enc='rsa'

Read the documentation of a specific module

salt '*' sys.doc <module>