Unable to stop an ESXi service from within a state file

[ferdinandosimonetti]

Hello everyone, first of all a description of my environment:

Test environment

OS

[root@getvlsalt02 srv]# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="7"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"
HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"

CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-7"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="7"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7"

Salt version

[root@getvlsalt02 srv]# rpm -qa|grep salt
salt-3005.1-1.el7.noarch
salt-master-3005.1-1.el7.noarch
salt-minion-3005.1-1.el7.noarch

###VMware extensions

saltext.vmware-22.9.8.0rc1.dist-info

My problem

Explicit invocation

When I invoke (via salt-call) the module manage_service to stop a a service on a specific ESXi (got pillar structure already configured), it works as expected.

[root@getvlsalt02 ~]# salt-call vmware_esxi.manage_service service_name=TSM-SSH host_name=myhostname.mydomain.lan state=stop
local:
    True
[root@getvlsalt02 ~]# salt-call vmware_esxi.list_services service_name=TSM-SSH host_name=myhostname.mydomain.lan
local:
    ----------
    myhostname.mydomain.lan:
        ----------
        TSM-SSH:
            ----------
            startup_policy:
                off
            state:
                stopped
[root@getvlsalt02 ~]# salt-call vmware_esxi.manage_service service_name=TSM-SSH host_name=myhostname.mydomain.lan state=start
local:
    True
[root@getvlsalt02 ~]# salt-call vmware_esxi.manage_service service_name=TSM-SSH host_name=myhostname.mydomain.lan startup_policy=on
local:
    True
[root@getvlsalt02 ~]# salt-call vmware_esxi.list_services service_name=TSM-SSH host_name=myhostname.mydomain.lan
local:
    ----------
    myhostname.mydomain.lan:
        ----------
        TSM-SSH:
            ----------
            startup_policy:
                on
            state:
                running

From within a state file

If I try, instead, to invoke the service management command from within a state file, I can modify the service's startup_policy but the state stays running.

The state file

[root@getvlsalt02 srv]# cat salt/new3.sls
setup_services_3a:
  module.run:
    - name: vmware_esxi.manage_service
    - service_name: TSM-SSH
    - host_name: {{ pillar['mytarget']['hostname'] }}
    - startup_policy: off
    - state: stop

list_service_3a:
  module.run:
    - name: vmware_esxi.list_services
    - service_name: TSM-SSH
    - host_name: {{ pillar['mytarget']['hostname'] }}

The invocation of above described state

[root@getvlsalt02 srv]# salt-call state.apply new3
local:
----------
          ID: setup_services_3a
    Function: module.run
        Name: vmware_esxi.manage_service
      Result: True
     Comment: Module function vmware_esxi.manage_service executed
     Started: 11:26:55.643790
    Duration: 11281.336 ms
     Changes:
              ----------
              ret:
                  True
----------
          ID: list_service_3a
    Function: module.run
        Name: vmware_esxi.list_services
      Result: True
     Comment: Module function vmware_esxi.list_services executed
     Started: 11:27:06.925574
    Duration: 9191.757 ms
     Changes:
              ----------
              ret:
                  ----------
                  myhostname.mydomain.lan:
                      ----------
                      TSM-SSH:
                          ----------
                          startup_policy:
                              off
                          state:
                              running

Summary for local
------------
Succeeded: 2 (changed=2)
Failed:    0
------------
Total states run:     2
Total run time:  20.473 s