it is a security feature, requiring sentinel configuration.
But the good news is that your masternode will stake properly in this state.
question
I created a master node and status says it's started but I see this in status
absolute-cli masternode list | grep b4c7
"xxxxxxxxx4c02d3fbd00f0130fcaf06518f10c47222efdecfbcae5199b9c02879c-1": "WATCHDOG_EXPIRED",
what does this indicate - thanks in advance