Troubleshooting runners

In a way, runners are a little easier to troubleshoot than other types of modules. For instance, even though they run on the Master, they don't need the salt-master service to be restarted to pick up new changes. In fact, unless you're using the local client, you don't actually have to have the salt-master service running.

Working with the salt-master service

If you are using the local client, and you try to issue a command without the salt-master service running, you will get an error that looks like this:

# salt-run scan.hyper_os
Exception occurred in runner scan.hyper_os: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/client/mixins.py", line 340, in low
    data['return'] = self.functions[fun](*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/runners/scan.py", line 68, in hyper_os
    hypers(client),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/runners/scan.py", line 50, in hypers
    timeout=__opts__['timeout']
  File...