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Arista EOS Salt minion installation guide
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The Salt minion for Arista EOS is distributed as a SWIX extension and can be installed directly on the switch. The EOS network operating system is based on old Fedora distributions and the installation of the ``salt-minion`` requires backports. This SWIX extension contains the necessary backports, together with the Salt basecode.

.. note::

    This SWIX extension has been tested on Arista DCS-7280SE-68-R, running EOS 4.17.5M and vEOS 4.18.3F.

Important Notes
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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
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Download the swix package and save it to flash.

.. code-block:: bash

   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

.. code-block:: bash

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

Install the SWIX

.. code-block:: bash

   veos#extension salt-eos-latest.swix force

Verify the installation

.. code-block:: bash

    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)

.. code-block:: bash

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

Make sure you enable the eAPI with unix-socket

.. code-block:: console

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

Post-installation tasks
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Generate Keys and host record and start Salt minion

.. code-block:: bash

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

``salt-minion`` should be running

Copy the installed extensions to boot-extensions

.. code-block:: bash

   veos#copy installed-extensions boot-extensions

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

.. code-block:: console

   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 :ref:`Configuring Salt<configuring-salt>`.

.. _uninstalling:

Uninstalling
============

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

1. Remove the extension from boot-extensions

.. code-block:: bash

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

2. Remove the extension from extensions folder

.. code-block:: bash

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

2. Remove boot-up script

.. code-block:: console

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

Additional Information
======================

This SWIX extension contains the following RPM packages:

.. code-block:: text

    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