# salt.modules.event

Use the Salt Event System to fire events from the master to the minion and vice-versa.

`salt.modules.event.` `fire`(data, tag)

  Fire an event on the local minion event bus

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' event.fire 'stuff to be in the event' 'tag'

`salt.modules.event.` `fire_master`(data, tag, preload=None)

  Fire an event off up to the master server

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' event.fire_master 'stuff to be in the event' 'tag'

Current Salt release: 0.17.1

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