Why does the command "salt '*' state.highstate" error out with the message "No minions matched the target."?

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Issue

  • Why does the command "salt '*' state.highstate" error out with the message "No minions matched the target."?

  • The 'salt' command errors out as following, on the admin node:

[root@calamari ~]# salt '*' state.highstate
No minions matched the target. No command was sent, no jid was assigned.

Environment

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2.3

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3

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