systemd - Manage services

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status
• Maintenance
  • Support
  • Author

Synopsis

• Controls systemd services on remote hosts.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• A system managed by systemd.

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Make sure a service is running
  systemd:
    state: started
    name: httpd

- name: stop service cron on debian, if running
  systemd:
    name: cron
    state: stopped

- name: restart service cron on centos, in all cases, also issue daemon-reload to pick up config changes
  systemd:
    state: restarted
    daemon_reload: yes
    name: crond

- name: reload service httpd, in all cases
  systemd:
    name: httpd
    state: reloaded

- name: enable service httpd and ensure it is not masked
  systemd:
    name: httpd
    enabled: yes
    masked: no

- name: enable a timer for dnf-automatic
  systemd:
    name: dnf-automatic.timer
    state: started
    enabled: yes

- name: just force systemd to reread configs (2.4 and above)
  systemd:
    daemon_reload: yes

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as core which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Core Team, see here.

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

• Ansible Core Team