Error in Ansible Playbook where Cloudwatch Agent Status is being checked - amazon-web-services

Question

can you help me? This is my ansible script:
---
- hosts: "{{host_list}}"
remote_user: root
gather_facts: true
tasks:
- name: Check if Cloudwatch Agent is Installed Already
command: service status amazon-cloudwatch-agent
register: init_status_result
ignore_errors: yes
- debug:
var: init_status_result.stderr
verbosity: 4
- name: Create Directory for Downloading Cloudwatch Agent zip
file:
path: /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-zip
state: directory
owner: root
group: root
mode: '0755'
recurse: no
when: init_status_result.stderr is search ("For other actions, please try to use systemctl")
I have this error when attempting to run my playbook (I just want a way really to run through the playbook if the status check of the cloudwatch agent service is not found.):
user1#ansible01-infra-mgnt:~/.ansible/playbooks/cw_agent$ ansible-playbook -K -i /home/user1/.ansible/etc/hosts --extra-vars="host_list=11.22.33.44" install_cw_agent.yml
SUDO password:
PLAY [11.22.33.44] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [11.22.33.44]
TASK [Check if Cloudwatch Agent is Installed Already] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
[WARNING]: Consider using the service module rather than running service. If you need to use command because service is insufficient you can add warn=False to this command task or set command_warnings=False in ansible.cfg to get rid
of this message.
fatal: [11.22.33.44]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "service status amazon-cloudwatch-agent", "msg": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory", "rc": 2}
...ignoring
TASK [debug] ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
skipping: [11.22.33.44]
TASK [Create Directory for Downloading Cloudwatch Agent zip] ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [11.22.33.44]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'init_status_result.stderr is search (\"For other actions, please try to use systemctl\")' failed. The error was: Unexpected templating type error occurred on ({% if init_status_result.stderr is search (\"For other actions, please try to use systemctl\") %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}): expected string or buffer\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/home/user1/.ansible/playbooks/cw_agent/install_cw_agent.yml': line 15, column 7, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - name: Create Directory for Downloading Cloudwatch Agent zip\n ^ here\n"}
to retry, use: --limit #/home/user1/.ansible/playbooks/cw_agent/install_cw_agent.retry
PLAY RECAP **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
11.22.33.44 : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 ```

Answer 1

Try shell module to check the service status instead of command module .
shell: “service status service_name”