Nagios stale service don't retry

[born2fail]

Hi everyone,

We are using two nagios 3.2.1-2 servers on a distributed environment. When one service is in stale mode (checks are older than freshness treshold) it executes a dummy process and become critical. The problem is that it doesn't retry the check, the service remains in SOFT state (1/3), and we never get notification.
retry_check_interval is set to 1. Is that correct?

Thanks in advance,
born2fail

[jsmurphy]

It won't retry a dummy process tied to a one time event like freshness, if you want an alert you would need to set the max_check_attempts to 1... which shouldn't be a problem because you will be using that freshness threshold to determine the timeout period before notification.