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c4urself
Asked: 2017-10-07 08:11:25 +0800 CST

Count the number of Salt minions matched

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Is there a simple way to count the number of minions returned by a match, for example: 

salt -C 'G@ec2_roles:test' match.count
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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can add --summary to any salt call like:

    salt -C 'G@ec2_roles:test' --summary

    The you will get an report at the end of the execution which tells you how many minions were targeted:

    -------------------------------------------
Summary
-------------------------------------------
# of minions targeted: 528
# of minions returned: 501
# of minions that did not return: 27
# of minions with errors: 0
-------------------------------------------
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  2. You could change the output format and run it through wc:

    salt -C 'G@ec2_roles:test' test.ping --out=txt | wc -l
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