I have successfully created and configured a systemd template for easily spawning instances of similar services.

the template looks like this:

```
[Unit]
Description=my awesome service %I
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/binary -c /path/to/config/%i.conf
ExecStop=/usr/bin/pkill --full %i
Restart=on-failure
User=root
Group=root
TimeoutSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

```

I enabled and started the instance with systemcl enable name@kkk, systemctl start name@kkk and did not create a /path/to/config/kkk.conf file, so the service fails:

```
~# systemctl status name@kkk.service
● name@kkk.service - my awesome service  kkk
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/name@.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-10-04 15:20:09 CEST; 3min 27s ago
  Process: 30116 ExecStop=/usr/bin/pkill --full %i (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 30113 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/binary -c /path/to/config/kkk.conf (code=exited, status=1/FA
 Main PID: 30113 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Oct 04 15:20:08 host systemd[1]: name@kkk.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 04 15:20:08 host systemd[1]: name@kkk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 04 15:20:09 host systemd[1]: name@kkk.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Oct 04 15:20:09 host systemd[1]: Stopped my awesome service for kkk.

```

If I run systemctl --failed, I get 

```
0 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

```

which is obviously not correct, because the service is failed. Am I doing something wrong or missing something here? TIA.