ESXi 5.0 - Clear SEL without vCenter

Hi there,

I keep getting warning messages with CIM as below. And this is a problem because we use a python script for hardware monitoring.

     WARNING : IPMI SEL - Server: HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 s/n:...

I know there is a ton of posts on clearning these using vCenter but cannot find how to do it using the CLI or the vSphere client. I believe it's something to do with either /var/log/ipmi/0/sel and/or /var/log/ipmi/0/sel.raw. Both of these are only about 3k in size though.

Can someone please let me know how to do this to prevent the error coming up?

ESXi 5.0.0 623860

HP ML350p G8

Thanks for any help.