Nagios forces active checks to be run when used in conjuction with freshness checking, even when active checks for that service are disabled. The docs describe it pretty well at http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/distributed.html under the "Freshness Checking" section. You have to read it carefully, though.
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