clearing stale (false) hardware health status in SolarWinds / VMAN for a vCenter-polled ESXi node?

VMware ESXi 7.03 host running on Supermicro SYS-1029TP-DC1R server is showing a hardware health issue (power supply not present or failed) that used to be true, but no longer is.

The node is polled through vCenter. The host is all green in vCenter, as well as in IPMI/BMC hardware health monitoring.

Is there a simple way to clear this false flag? (Removing the host, running the database maintenance to clear stale / dormant data, and then re-adding the host - didn't help.)

(This is related to "missing ESXi hosts in SAM / VMAN (basic)" question as it was one of the issues where SolarWinds didn't poll vCenter correctly.)

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+1 akhasheni 2 months ago

Restarting the host cleared the issue - it's all green now in SolarWinds, as well.

(The host had a "restart required" flag on it in vSphere that I sort of forgot about - yet this still doesn't explain why SolarWinds was showing a hardware health issue where the ESXi host itself, vCenter, and the server's management UI showed none.)
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+1 akhasheni 2 months ago

Restarting the host cleared the issue - it's all green now in SolarWinds, as well.

(The host had a "restart required" flag on it in vSphere that I sort of forgot about - yet this still doesn't explain why SolarWinds was showing a hardware health issue where the ESXi host itself, vCenter, and the server's management UI showed none.)
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0 adam.beedell 2 months ago in reply to akhasheni

These are such a pain to prove one way or the other
I've moved to mostly referring to the vmware alarms if that helps at all.

There's a model you can traverse for the hosts which can help explain but I dont remember it's name and it's a PITA
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