Service restart in Windows Operating system using playbooks

[Suma P]

Hi Team ,

I am trying to restart the spooler service in windows remotely by creating playbooks in RHEL Operating system .its trowing below error.kindly suggest me to resolve this issue.

playbook content :

---
- name: Restart a service
  win_service:
    name: spooler
    state: restarted

ERROR is :

[root@Amaster ansible]# ansible-playbook restart_spool_service.yml
ERROR! 'win_service' is not a valid attribute for a Play

The error appears to have been in '/etc/ansible/restart_spool_service.yml': line 2, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

---
- name: Restart a service
  ^ here

Thanks & Regards,

Suma

[J Hawkesworth]

Hi,

You need to tell the playbook which hosts you want to run your tasks on, something like the following (not tested).

---

- hosts: windows
tasks:

- name: restart spooler

win_service:
name: spooler
state: restarted

Hope this helps,

Jon