I recently added a patch to YAVIJAVA that allows you to reset an alarm status. William Lam has posted in the past about how to hack the perl sdk to add this functionality, so I thought it would be a good idea to add this functionality to YAVIJAVA. I have manually implemented this in Groovy and in python for pyVmomi so adding it to the primary library I use seemed logical. Im still doing a bit more re-work to YAVIJAVA but if you want to use that now you can check out a copy from GitHub and use the gradle build script to build a copy for your self.

Using this new functionality in YAVIJAVA from Groovy (which is how I do it) would look something like this:

ServiceInstance si = new ServiceInstance(new URL(""),"","", true)
Folder rootFolder = si.getRootFolder()
HostSystem hostSystem = rootFolder.getChildEntity()[0].hostFolder.childEntity[0]
AlarmState[] alarmState = hostSystem.triggeredAlarmState
Alarm foo = alarmState[0].alarm as Alarm
AlarmManager am = new AlarmManager(si.getServerConnection(), foo.getMOR())
am.setAlarmStatus(foo, hostSystem, "green")

I havent tested this yet so YMMV. Before I do the next official release of YAVIJAVA I will have tested it out and include a working sample.