Installing Salt

1. summary Configuring salt for use with Onionsalt.

Table of Contents Salt Install Configuration on the master Configuration on the minion Register your Minions

Salt Install

On your backend that you want to make you salt master:

On your Sensor:

Configuration on the master

On your master modify /etc/salt/master and change the following lines of code:

to:

and:

to:

Restart your master:

Configuration on the minion

Modify /etc/salt/minion and change the following line:

to:

Restart your minion:

• If you already have Security Onion installed you will need to run the following command. You will also need to run this every time you use sosteup on a sensor on the sensor until I fix the code to handle this:

Register your Minions

Now that everything is running let's make sure you can talk to your minions. Run the following command:

Your output should look like this:

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Now accept all keys with the following command:

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Now run the salt-key -L and you should see they are accepted. Let's make sure we can talk to everyone and everyone is happy.

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Head back to the [Installation] to get this mug going..