Service and Host Result Freshness Checks documentation clarification request

[Ahmon Dancy]

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> On 10/03/07 03:02 PM, Ahmon Dancy wrote:
>> I would like the answer to the following question to be answered in the 
>> documentation:
>>
>> Once a service is determined to be stale and the freshness check command 
>> executes, how often does it reexecute (if at all)?  Does it depend on 
>> the retry_check_interval?
> 
> There is no different command for freshness. When the service
> check_command runs the service is refreshed and the command will
> re-execute only once the service freshness exceed the freshness
> threshold again.
> 
> Isn't that obvious?

I have a situation where it would be useful to have the check_command 
reexecute if a service remains stale for an extended period of time. 
The retry_check_interval seems like a feasible place to control such 
behavior.


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