NAME

       salt-call - salt-call Documentation

SYNOPSIS

          salt-call [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  salt-call  command  is  used  to  run module functions locally on a minion instead of
       executing them from the master. Salt-call is used to run  a  Standalone  Minion,  and  was
       originally created for troubleshooting.

       The  Salt Master is contacted to retrieve state files and other resources during execution
       unless the --local option is specified.

       NOTE:
          salt-call commands execute from the current user's shell context, while  salt  commands
          execute from the system's default context.

OPTIONS

       --version
              Print the version of Salt that is running.

       --versions-report
              Show program's dependencies and version number, and then exit

       -h, --help
              Show the help message and exit

       -c CONFIG_DIR, --config-dir=CONFIG_dir
              The  location  of  the  Salt  configuration  directory. This directory contains the
              configuration files for Salt master and  minions.  The  default  location  on  most
              systems is /etc/salt.

       --hard-crash
              Raise any original exception rather than exiting gracefully Default: False

       -g, --grains
              Return the information generated by the Salt grains

       -m MODULE_DIRS, --module-dirs=MODULE_DIRS
              Specify  an additional directory to pull modules from.  Multiple directories can be
              provided by passing -m /--module-dirs multiple times.

       -d, --doc, --documentation
              Return the documentation for the specified module or for all modules  if  none  are
              specified

       --master=MASTER
              Specify  the  master  to  use. The minion must be authenticated with the master. If
              this option is omitted, the master options from the minion config will be used.  If
              multi masters are set up the first listed master that responds will be used.

       --return RETURNER
              Set  salt-call  to pass the return data to one or many returner interfaces.  To use
              many returner interfaces specify a comma delimited list of returners.

       --local
              Run salt-call locally, as if there was no master running.

       --file-root=FILE_ROOT
              Set this directory as the base file root.

       --pillar-root=PILLAR_ROOT
              Set this directory as the base pillar root.

       --retcode-passthrough
              Exit with the salt call retcode and not the salt binary retcode

       --metadata
              Print out the execution metadata as well as the return. This  will  print  out  the
              outputter data, the return code, etc.

       --id=ID
              Specify  the  minion  id  to use. If this option is omitted, the id option from the
              minion config will be used.

       --skip-grains
              Do not load grains.

       --refresh-grains-cache
              Force a refresh of the grains cache

   Logging Options
       Logging options which override any settings defined on the configuration files.

       -l LOG_LEVEL, --log-level=LOG_LEVEL
              Console logging log level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error,
              quiet. Default: warning.

       --log-file=LOG_FILE
              Log file path. Default: /var/log/salt/minion.

       --log-file-level=LOG_LEVEL_LOGFILE
              Logfile logging log level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error,
              quiet. Default: warning.

   Output Options
       --out  Pass in an alternative outputter to display the return of data. This outputter  can
              be any of the available outputters:
                 grains, highstate, json, key, overstatestage, pprint, raw, txt, yaml

              Some  outputters  are formatted only for data returned from specific functions; for
              instance, the grains outputter will not work for non-grains data.

              If an outputter is used that does not support the data passed into  it,  then  Salt
              will fall back on the pprint outputter and display the return data using the Python
              pprint standard library module.

              NOTE:
                 If using --out=json, you will probably  want  --static  as  well.   Without  the
                 static  option,  you will get a separate JSON string per minion which makes JSON
                 output invalid as a whole.  This is due to using an iterative outputter.  So  if
                 you want to feed it to a JSON parser, use --static as well.

       --out-indent OUTPUT_INDENT, --output-indent OUTPUT_INDENT
              Print  the output indented by the provided value in spaces. Negative values disable
              indentation. Only applicable in outputters that support indentation.

       --out-file=OUTPUT_FILE, --output-file=OUTPUT_FILE
              Write the output to the specified file.

       --out-file-append, --output-file-append
              Append the output to the specified file.

       --no-color
              Disable all colored output

       --force-color
              Force colored output

              NOTE:
                 When using colored output the color codes are as follows:

                 green denotes success, red denotes failure, blue denotes changes and success and
                 yellow denotes a expected future change in configuration.

       --state-output=STATE_OUTPUT, --state_output=STATE_OUTPUT
              Override  the  configured  state_output  value  for  minion  output. One of 'full',
              'terse', 'mixed', 'changes' or 'filter'. Default: 'none'.

       --state-verbose=STATE_VERBOSE, --state_verbose=STATE_VERBOSE
              Override the configured state_verbose value for  minion  output.  Set  to  True  or
              False. Default: none.

SEE ALSO

       salt(1) salt-master(1) salt-minion(1)

AUTHOR

       Thomas S. Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> and many others, please see the Authors file