Ansible: How to get disabled but running services?

Question

I would like to walk over lots of hosts and get all services that were manually started (systemctl start xxxx) without being enabled first (systemctl enable xxxx) and also vice-versa all services which are disabled (systemctl disable xxxx) but still running (because have not been stopped).

And instead of automatically 'fixing' all of the above found problems I just would like to have them output to my shell.

Something like a for each loop over systemctl list-unit-files --state=disabled and running every row through systemctl is-active would probably work, but I would need to transfer a small SH script to every host...

Can this be done by Ansible alone? (using RHEL7 Update 7 with kernel 3.10.x)

Edit: This is my playbook so far, but I can not get the loop working:

---
- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
     - name: get service facts
       service_facts:
     - name: show report
       when:
        - ansible_facts.services[item + '.service'].state == 'running'
        - ansible_facts.services[item + '.service'].status == 'disabled'
       debug:
         msg: "{{ ansible_facts.services[item + '.service'].status == 'disabled' }}"
       loop:
         ansible_facts.services

Answer 1

Regarding your question

Can this be done by Ansible alone?

the short answer is: yes, of course. This is what Ansible is made for.

In respect to your headline

How to get disabled but running services?

and the comment

Have you tried ansible.builtin.service_facts

I've prepared a short test which will show the structure of ansible_facts.services.

---
- hosts: localhost
  become: no
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

  - name: Gather Service Facts
    service_facts:

  - name: Show Service Facts
    debug:
      msg: "{{ ansible_facts.services }}"

Which is than, in example for one of the services

auditd.service:
  name: auditd.service
  source: systemd
  state: running
  status: enabled

So you will need to loop over the result set and looking for ansible_facts.services[YOURSERVICE].state and ansible_facts.services[YOURSERVICE].status.

In respect to your description

... services which are disabled (systemctl disable xxxx) but still running (because have not been stopped) ...

you may have a look into the answer to how to declare a variable for service_facts.

In respect of your comment

... how I can do the when condition for all services ...

and the already mentioned loop over the result, I've added for the test setup

- name: Loop over all services and print name
  debug:
    msg: "{{ item }}"
  when:
    - ansible_facts.services[item].state == 'running'
    - ansible_facts.services[item].status != 'enabled'
  with_items: "{{ ansible_facts.services }}"

and found it working.

You may need to adjust the conditionals since that query will report services in status static like dbus or systemd-journald too. Please take also note that a service can also have an unknow status. In example

splunk.service:
  name: splunk.service
  source: systemd
  state: running
  status: unknown

or

systemctl status splunk
● splunk.service - SYSV: Splunk indexer service
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/splunk; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) ...