vCenter is reporting authentication failures for a data source that has been deleted from Aria Operations for Networks.
You may see the errors in the Collector logs like "Connection close attempt on dead connection failed with message : Could not log out from VC"
Example log records:
2024-12-30T14:12:24.771Z ERROR vcenter.southbound.VCConnectionEntity VCENTER_###.###.###_Esxcli_OpMgr-0 isAlive:207 Could not check if VC is alive. java.rmi.RemoteException: Exception caught trying to invoke method CurrentTime_ nested exception is:
2024-12-30T14:12:24.772Z ERROR dataproviders.dsconnectionmanagement.ConnectionEntityPool VCENTER_###.###.###_Esxcli_OpMgr-0 getAliveConnection:146 Connection close attempt on dead connection failed with message : Could not log out from VC
Aria Operations for Networks 6.10.0
Aria Operations for Networks 6.11.0
Aria Operations for Networks 6.12.0
Aria Operations for Networks 6.12.1
Aria Operations for Networks 6.13.0
Aria Operations for Networks 6.14.0
Data Source connection authentication information has been cached on the Aria Operations for Networks collector due to which authentication failure alerts are seen.
Reboot the Collector VM through vCenter to clear the cache.
In vCenter,
Reboot the Aria Operations for Networks Collector VM through vCenter to clear the cache.
Steps as below: