Service Plugin

Heist can use a system manager to manage the service of the artifact. By default it will not use a service manager and start the service in the background. If you want to use a service manager you have a couple of options:

1. Set service_plugin to the service manager you want to use on the target host in the Heist config.

   heist:
     service_plugin: systemd
   

2. Set auto_service to True in Heist’s config and Heist will auto detect the system manager.

   heist:
     auto_service: True
   

3. Set service_plugin in your roster file to the service manager you want to use on the target host.

   system_name:
     host: 10.0.0.28
     username: root
     password: "password"
     service_plugin: systemd
   

Note

The only service managers currently supported are:

• systemd

• win_service