# salt-key
> Invoke salt locally on a salt minion.
- Perform a highstate on this minion
`salt-call state.highstate`
- Perform a highstate dry-run, compute all changes but don't actually perform them
`salt-call state.highstate test=true`
- Perform a highstate with verbose debugging output
`salt-call -l debug state.highstate`
- List this minion's grains
`salt-call grains.items`