ansible.windows.win_service_info module – Gather information about Windows services

Note

This module is part of the ansible.windows collection (version 2.5.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ansible.windows.win_service_info.

Synopsis

• Gather information about all or a specific installed Windows service(s).

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
name string	If specified, this is used to match the name or display_name of the Windows service to get the info for. Can be a wildcard to match multiple services but the wildcard will only be matched on the name of the service and not display_name. If omitted then all services will returned.

See Also

See also

ansible.windows.win_service

Manage and query Windows services.

Examples

- name: Get info for all installed services
  ansible.windows.win_service_info:
  register: service_info

- name: Get info for a single service
  ansible.windows.win_service_info:
    name: WinRM
  register: service_info

- name: Get info for a service using its display name
  ansible.windows.win_service_info:
    name: Windows Remote Management (WS-Management)

- name: Find all services that start with 'win'
  ansible.windows.win_service_info:
    name: win*

Return Values

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

Key	Description
exists boolean	Whether any services were found based on the criteria specified. Returned: always Sample: true
services list / elements=dictionary	A list of service(s) that were found based on the criteria. Will be an empty list if no services were found. Returned: always
checkpoint integer	A check-point value that the service increments periodically to report its progress. Returned: success Sample: 0
controls_accepted list / elements=string	A list of controls that the service can accept. Common controls are stop, pause_continue, shutdown. Returned: success Sample: ["stop", "shutdown"]
dependencies list / elements=string	A list of services by their name that this service is dependent on. Returned: success Sample: ["HTTP", "RPCSS"]
dependency_of list / elements=string	A list of services by their name that depend on this service. Returned: success Sample: ["upnphost", "WMPNetworkSvc"]
description string	The description of the service. Returned: success Sample: "Example description of the Windows service."
desktop_interact boolean	Whether the service can interact with the desktop, only valid for services running as SYSTEM. Returned: success Sample: false
display_name string	The display name to be used by SCM to identify the service. Returned: success Sample: "Windows Remote Management (WS-Management)"
error_control string	The action to take if a service fails to start. Common values are critical, ignore, normal, severe. Returned: success Sample: "normal"
failure_action_on_non_crash_failure boolean	Controls when failure actions are fired based on how the service was stopped. Returned: success Sample: false
failure_actions list / elements=dictionary	A list of failure actions to run in the event of a failure. Returned: success
delay_ms integer	The time to wait, in milliseconds, before performing the specified action. Returned: success Sample: 120000
type string	The action that will be performed. Common values are none, reboot, restart, run_command. Returned: success Sample: "run_command"
failure_command string	The command line that will be run when a run_command failure action is fired. Returned: success Sample: "runme.exe"
failure_reboot_msg string	The message to be broadcast to server users before rebooting when a reboot failure action is fired. Returned: success Sample: "Service failed, rebooting host."
failure_reset_period_sec integer	The time, in seconds, after which to reset the failure count to zero. Returned: success Sample: 86400
launch_protection string	The protection type of the service. Common values are none, windows, windows_light, or antimalware_light. Returned: success Sample: "none"
load_order_group string	The name of the load ordering group to which the service belongs. Will be an empty string if it does not belong to any group. Returned: success Sample: "My group"
name string	The name of the service. Returned: success Sample: "WinRM"
path string	The path to the service binary and any arguments used when starting the service. The binary part can be quoted to ensure any spaces in path are not treated as arguments. Returned: success Sample: "C:\\Windows\\System32\\svchost.exe -k netsvcs -p"
pre_shutdown_timeout_ms integer	The preshutdown timeout out value in milliseconds. Returned: success Sample: 10000
preferred_node integer	The node number for the preferred node. This will be null if the Windows host has no NUMA configuration. Returned: success Sample: 0
process_id integer	The process identifier of the running service. Returned: success Sample: 5135
required_privileges list / elements=string	A list of privileges that the service requires and will run with Returned: success Sample: ["SeBackupPrivilege", "SeRestorePrivilege"]
service_exit_code integer	A service-specific error code that is set while the service is starting or stopping. Returned: success Sample: 0
service_flags list / elements=string	Shows more information about the behaviour of a running service. Currently the only flag that can be set is runs_in_system_process. Returned: success Sample: ["runs_in_system_process"]
service_type string	The type of service. Common types are win32_own_process, win32_share_process, user_own_process, user_share_process, kernel_driver. Returned: success Sample: "win32_own_process"
sid_info string	The behavior of how the service’s access token is generated and how to add the service SID to the token. Common values are none, restricted, or unrestricted. Returned: success Sample: "none"
start_mode string	When the service is set to start. Common values are auto, manual, disabled, delayed. Returned: success Sample: "auto"
state string	The current running state of the service. Common values are stopped, start_pending, stop_pending, started, continue_pending, pause_pending, paused. Returned: success Sample: "started"
triggers list / elements=dictionary	A list of triggers defined for the service. Returned: success
action string	The action to perform once triggered, can be start_service or stop_service. Returned: success Sample: "start_service"
data_items list / elements=dictionary	A list of trigger data items that contain trigger specific data. A trigger can contain 0 or multiple data items. Returned: success
data complex	The trigger data item value. Can be a string, list of string, int, or base64 string of binary data. Returned: success Sample: "named pipe"
type string	The type of data for the trigger. Common values are string, binary, level, keyword_any, or keyword_all. Returned: success Sample: "string"
sub_type string	The trigger event sub type that is specific to each type. Common values are named_pipe_event, domain_join, domain_leave, firewall_port_open, and others. Returned: success
sub_type_guid string	The guid which represents the trigger sub type. Returned: success Sample: "1ce20aba-9851-4421-9430-1ddeb766e809"
type string	The trigger event type. Common values are custom, rpc_interface_event, domain_join, group_policy, and others. Returned: success Sample: "domain_join"
username string	The username used to run the service. Can be null for user services and certain driver services. Returned: success Sample: "NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM"
wait_hint_ms integer	The estimated time in milliseconds required for a pending start, stop, pause,or continue operations. Returned: success Sample: 0
win32_exitcode integer	The error code returned from the service binary once it has stopped. When set to 1066 then a service specific error is returned on service_exit_code. Returned: success Sample: 0

Authors

• Jordan Borean (@jborean93)

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