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Salt grains reported by minion differ form those reported to master

I have a minion with id app1. It has the following grains as reported locally via salt-call -g and which are corroborated by its minion file:

id: app1
datacenter: dc1
master: saltmaster1
prototypes: application
...

where datacenter and prototypes are custom grains.

From saltmaster1, I run salt 'app1' cmd.run "echo 'yo' | wall" to make sure that I am talking to the correct minion and I see the wall message on app1. I then test that I can ping app1 and that it will respond salt 'app1' test.ping and it responds True. Now I run salt 'app1' grains.items from saltmaster1 and it displays the following values:

id: app1
master: saltmaster1
prototypes: application
...

The datacenter grain is missing! Why?

Solution

  • I restarted the salt-minion service and waited a few minutes.