Amazon Linux 2 Auditd fails to restart

[mfortin]

Describe the bug
Amazon Linux 2 fails to restart auditd service to apply changes.
Expected behavior
Service restart successfully

Actual behavior

Failed to restart auditd.service: Operation refused, unit auditd.service may be requested by dependency only (it is configured to refuse manual start/stop).

Example code

$ sudo systemctl restart auditd
Failed to restart auditd.service: Operation refused, unit auditd.service may be requested by dependency only (it is configured to refuse manual start/stop).
See system logs and 'systemctl status auditd.service' for details.

OS / Environment

Chef Version

14.7.17

Cookbook Version

4.0.0

Additional context
CentOS 7+ and Fedora 27+ had the same issue which is resolved by running service auditd restart. This alternate method should also include Amazon Linux 2.