salt.modules.sys

The regular salt modules execute in a separate context from the salt minion and manipulating the actual salt modules needs to happen in a higher level context within the minion process. This is where the sys pseudo module is used.

The sys pseudo module comes with a few functions that return data about the available functions on the minion or allows for the minion modules to be refreshed. These functions are as follows:

salt.modules.sys.doc([module[, module.function]])

Display the inline documentation for all available modules, or for the specified module or function.

salt.modules.sys.reload_modules()

Instruct the minion to reload all available modules in memory. This function can be called if the modules need to be re-evaluated for availability or new modules have been made available to the minion.

salt.modules.sys.list_modules()

List all available (loaded) modules.

salt.modules.sys.list_functions()

List all known functions that are in available (loaded) modules.