Salt has the option to manage servers agentlessly. Agentless means that the targets don't need a agent process. The master orchestrates the target system over SSH. Therefor it exists an own command called _salt-shh. _ The following sections explain how to install Salt SSH on a CentOs 5.5 and how to configure minimally …

When you follow the instruction step in the installation guide for Centos 5.5, the package manager automatically installs ZeroMQ in version 2.2. This ZeroMQ version makes some troubles. Therefore, Salt recommends using ZeroMQ in version >= 3.2. There is no ZeroMQ package for this version available in the official …