Why Are Services Showing as Running when Inactive After Running a Fact Scan within Ansible Tower?

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Issue

  • After running fact scan playbook noticed that xyz.service the state in fact scan shows running, but the actual state is inactive.
# systemctl status xyz.service
● xyz.service - xyz daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/xyz.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2017-03-09 11:31:22 IST 

Environment

  • Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.2.x

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