Salt Events

This node module is used to fire off events using the Salt Events System. This enables node applications to send events on the salt events bus.

Salt is a powerful configuration management system and remote execution framework. Salt has many parts, one of which is the Salt Event System. This is a socket bus allowing minions and masters send events/messages.

• Website: http://www.saltstack.com
• Repo: https://github.com/saltstack

Requirements

• nodejs
• salt-minion

Installing

npm install saltevents

Application Usage

// Import the saltevents module
saltEvents = require('saltevents');


payload = {
  'hello': 'world',
  'status': 'success'
}

// Send payload to local bus
saltEvents.local(payload, 'tag');

// Send payload to the master
saltEvents.master(payload, 'tag');

ToDO

• Use on the command line
• Send events to the minion from the master
• Get events from the socket
• Listen for events on the socket and process it with callback function