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

CLI Example:

salt '*' event.fire 'stuff to be in the event' '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 'stuff to be in the event' 'tag'