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Werk #20035: Service discovery: Fix timeout when enabling/disabling a service on hosts with many disabled services

Component Checks & agents
Title Service discovery: Fix timeout when enabling/disabling a service on hosts with many disabled services
Date Jun 25, 2026
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
3.0.0b1
Not yet released
Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Cloud, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.5.0p8
Not yet released
Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Cloud, Checkmk Ultimate MT

When enabling or disabling a single service during service discovery on a host that already had many disabled services, the operation could run into the automation timeout (around 110 seconds) and fail.

For every service change, Checkmk verifies the resulting "Disabled services" rules. Due to a regression, all services that were already disabled on the host were needlessly re-processed on every save, triggering one rule-matching automation call per disabled service. On hosts with a hundred or more disabled services, the accumulated time exceeded the automation timeout.

Only the services whose state actually changes are now processed, so enabling or disabling a service is fast again regardless of how many disabled services the host has.

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