When running a salt state.apply command for states that are defined in the Aria Automation UI the states can not be found.

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

The state file that is being called by state.apply is defined in the Aria Automation UI file system and does not exist on the local file system of the salt-master where the fileroots directory is defined. 

Environment

Salt - all supported versions

Aria Automation Config - all supported versions

Cause

This issue can happen if the /etc/salt/master or a conf file in /etc/salt/master.d does not have the fileserver_backend section defiled and it does not have the sseapi file backend defined somewhere in the list.

Resolution

Add sseapi to the /etc/salt/master file in the fileserver_backend section

fileserver_backend:
   ...

  - sseapi

  ...