saltmaster service appears active and running but deployment/day 2 operations fail to deploy salt-minion

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

When deploying salt-minion from Aria Automation the deployment fails to deploy the salt minion. When running systemclt status salt-master you see the following error:

### ###[ ###]:   File "/opt/saltstack/salt/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 1352, in do_open
### ###[ ###]:     r = h.getresponse()
### ###[ ###]:   File "/opt/saltstack/salt/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1375, in getresponse
### ###[ ###]:     response.begin()
### ###[ ###]:   File "/opt/saltstack/salt/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 318, in begin
### ###[ ###]:     version, status, reason = self._read_status()
### ###[ ###]:   File "/opt/saltstack/salt/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 287, in _read_status
### ###[ ###]:     raise RemoteDisconnected("Remote end closed connection without"
### ###[ ###]: http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response
### ###[###]: [WARNING ] sseapi_event_queue: engine iteration time (24.7s) exceeded push interval (5.0s)

Environment

Salt-master 3006.9

Aria Automation Config 8.16.2.2

Aria Automation 8.16.1

Resolution

Restarting the salt-master service with the following command resolves the issue:
systemctl restart salt-master