Minion did not return. [No response]

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There are multiple reasons why your minion did not return.
Hereby a couple checks you can do for troubleshooting your Salt – minion configuration.

1. Check if your minion is running.

   On Linux:
   systemctl status salt-minion
   On Windows:
   Check it with services.msc

2. Check if you can resolve the salt master.

   If not, add to dns or hostfile

3. Check your firewall settings.

   On both master and minion, maby something is blocked.
   To disable the firwall on Linux:
   Ubuntu: sudo ufw disable
   CentOS: sudo systemctl stop firewalld , sudo systemctl disable firewalld
   To disable the firewall on Windows:
   Set-NetFirewallProfile -Profile Domain,Public,Private -Enabled False

4. Test ping your minion.

   salt VM01 test.ping
   If not..
   Then mostly increasing the timeout value of salt master fix it
   Sudo nano /etc/salt/master
   Search for timeout
   Increase it to for example 60
   Restart your salt-master.
   sudo pkill salt-master
   sudo salt-master -d

5. Reinstall your minion.

   The last one, reinstall your minion. If you have more troubleshooting options, please comment below 🙂