You will need to connect as a user with admin level privileges. You can probably use win_copy to push the nssm.exe on to your machine first. If I recall it is a single standalone executable with no external dependencies (except possibly .net) Jon
On Friday, 12 February 2016 09:04:26 UTC, ishan jain wrote: > > Thanks Joe, > > I tried using the raw module but the problem i am facing is that NSSM > requires admin level privileges to start/stop services. How can i enable > 'Run as admin' level while passing a command in NSSM ? My windows machine > do not have a pre installed NSSM and thus i cannot create a service with > raw and then start it with the module later on. > > On Thursday, 11 February 2016 20:46:25 UTC+5:30, Joe Levis wrote: >> >> Ishan, >> >> The raw module works pretty much the same on Windows as it does on Linux >> - anything you can run on the command line can be run using the raw module. >> So, if you are wanting to use this nssm.exe rather than actually installing >> nssm, you would simply specify the path to the executable and pass whatever >> arguments it enables. >> >> I haven't found a way to specify the AppDirectory upon creation of the >> service, so what I do is run the raw module to set that *after* the >> service has been created. For you, this might look something like this: >> >> raw: C:\path\to\nssm.exe set [ServiceName] AppDirectory >> C:\path\to\appdirectory >> >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> >> -Joe >> >> On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 6:47:42 AM UTC-8, ishan jain wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to create some services on my windows machines with the help >>> of NSSM and would like to automate the process with Ansible. NSSM module >>> for ansible requires NSSM to be installed on the windows machine but i >>> cannot do that as internet is disabled on my windows machine. I want to use >>> the nssm.exe that i have copied on the remote server. >>> >>> How can i tell ansible to use those copied executables to run NSSM ? I >>> really need to specify the ApplicationDir, so i guess the ansible module is >>> not going to be useful for me. >>> >>> I think this problem will be solved via the raw module but honestly i do >>> not understand it much. Maybe because there is no proper documentation of >>> raw module for windows. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/10ddc3e9-0762-47b6-a038-2b6a56083169%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
