Is there any way to check HealthState or Status of NIC(vmnic)?

Before actually creating a new issue I confirm, I have read the FAQ (https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/308/check-esxi-hardware-faq-frequently-asked-questions): Y I confirm, I have restarted the CIM server (/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog restart) on the ESXi server and the problem remains: Y I confirm, I have cleared the server's local IPMI cache (localcli hardware ipmi sel clear) and restarted the services (/sbin/services.sh restart) on the ESXi server and the problem remains: Y

Describe the bug I added some scripts to check_esxi_hardware.py to handle the VMWare_EthernetPort and VMWare_PCIDevice classes to get NIC status. However, the CIM server didn't give me any information about the NIC status.

VMWare_Ethernetport : HealthState, OperationalStatus, Status... are always NULL. VMWare_PCIDevice : HealthState is not NULL, but always 0(Unknown). Other properties are always NULL.

Is HealthState still just a property that exists in the VMWare_Ethernetport/VMWare_PCIDevice schemas, not implemented?

Show the full plugin output, including the command with -v parameter

$ enum_instances VMware_EthernetPort root/cimv2

VMware_EthernetPort.CreationClassName="VMware_EthernetPort",DeviceID="vmnic0",SystemCreationClassName="OMC_UnitaryComputerSystem",SystemName="MY_SYSTEM_NAME"...
                    SystemName = MY_SYSTEM_NAME
       SystemCreationClassName = OMC_UnitaryComputerSystem
                      DeviceID = vmnic0
             CreationClassName = VMware_EthernetPort
                    WOLOptions = { 6,  }
                  WOLSupported = { 6,  }
                   Transceiver = 1
               PhysicalAddress = 0
     AdvertisedAutoNegotiation = true
           AdvertisedLinkModes = { AUTO_AUTO, 1000_FULL, 100_HALF, 100_FULL, 10_HALF, 10_FULL,  }
            SupportedLinkModes = { AUTO_AUTO, 1000_FULL, 100_HALF, 100_FULL, 10_HALF, 10_FULL,  }
                SupportedPorts = { 1,  }
                     AutoSense = 1
                      PortType = 53
       IdentifyingDescriptions = { PCI Bus, PCI Slot, PCI Function, PCI Vendor, PCI DeviceID, PCI Segment,  }
          OtherIdentifyingInfo = { 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x14e4, 0x1657, 0x0000,  }
 ActiveMaximumTransmissionUnit = 1500
                    FullDuplex = true
              UsageRestriction = 4
          TransitioningToState = 12
                         Speed = 1000000000
                RequestedState = 5
              PermanentAddress = MY_ADDRESS_VALUE
             OperationalStatus = { 2,  }
              NetworkAddresses = { MY_ADDRESS_VALUE,  }
                          Name = vmnic0
                LinkTechnology = 2
                  EnabledState = 2
                EnabledDefault = 2
           EnabledCapabilities = { 5,  }
                   ElementName = vmnic0
                       Caption = vmnic0
                  Capabilities = { 5,  }
SupportedMaximumTransmissionUnit = (NULL)
           OtherLinkTechnology = (NULL)
                    PortNumber = (NULL)
          OtherNetworkPortType = (NULL)
                MaxQuiesceTime = (NULL)
        AdditionalAvailability = (NULL)
             TotalPowerOnHours = (NULL)
                  PowerOnHours = (NULL)
                  ErrorCleared = (NULL)
              ErrorDescription = (NULL)
                 LastErrorCode = (NULL)
                    StatusInfo = (NULL)
                  Availability = (NULL)
   PowerManagementCapabilities = (NULL)
      PowerManagementSupported = (NULL)
                   Description = (NULL)
                    InstanceID = (NULL)
                   InstallDate = (NULL)
            StatusDescriptions = (NULL)
                        Status = (NULL)
                   HealthState = (NULL)
           CommunicationStatus = (NULL)
                DetailedStatus = (NULL)
               OperatingStatus = (NULL)
                 PrimaryStatus = (NULL)
             OtherEnabledState = (NULL)
         TimeOfLastStateChange = (NULL)
      AvailableRequestedStates = (NULL)
                      MaxSpeed = (NULL)
                RequestedSpeed = (NULL)
                 OtherPortType = (NULL)
                   MaxDataSize = (NULL)
        CapabilityDescriptions = (NULL)
      OtherEnabledCapabilities = (NULL)

$ enum_instances VMWare_PCIDevice root/cimv2

VMware_PCIDevice.SystemCreationClassName="OMC_UnitaryComputerSystem",SystemName="MY_SYSTEM_NAME...
                      DeviceID = PCI 0:3:0:0
             CreationClassName = VMware_PCIDevice
                    SystemName = MY_SYSTEM_NAME
       SystemCreationClassName = OMC_UnitaryComputerSystem
                  PhysicalSlot = (NULL)
                ParentDeviceID = PCI 0:0:2:2
                 SegmentNumber = 0
                  SubClassCode = 0
                    RevisionID = 1
                      VendorID = 5348
                   PCIDeviceID = 5719
                FunctionNumber = 0
                  DeviceNumber = 0
                     BusNumber = 3
             SubsystemVendorID = 4156
                   SubsystemID = 5789
                     ClassCode = 2
                  Capabilities = { 1, 3, 5, 17, 16,  }
                RequestedState = 0
                  EnabledState = 0
                 PrimaryStatus = 0
                   HealthState = 0
                   ElementName = Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet #0
               SelfTestEnabled = (NULL)
       ExpansionROMBaseAddress = (NULL)
                  InterruptPin = (NULL)
                  LatencyTimer = (NULL)
                 CacheLineSize = (NULL)
            DeviceSelectTiming = (NULL)
        CapabilityDescriptions = (NULL)
               CommandRegister = (NULL)
                MaxQuiesceTime = (NULL)
        AdditionalAvailability = (NULL)
       IdentifyingDescriptions = (NULL)
             TotalPowerOnHours = (NULL)
                  PowerOnHours = (NULL)
          OtherIdentifyingInfo = (NULL)
                  ErrorCleared = (NULL)
              ErrorDescription = (NULL)
                 LastErrorCode = (NULL)
                    StatusInfo = (NULL)
                  Availability = (NULL)
   PowerManagementCapabilities = (NULL)
      PowerManagementSupported = (NULL)
                   Description = (NULL)
                       Caption = (NULL)
                    InstanceID = (NULL)
                   InstallDate = (NULL)
                          Name = (NULL)
             OperationalStatus = (NULL)
            StatusDescriptions = (NULL)
                        Status = (NULL)
           CommunicationStatus = (NULL)
                DetailedStatus = (NULL)
               OperatingStatus = (NULL)
             OtherEnabledState = (NULL)
                EnabledDefault = 2
         TimeOfLastStateChange = (NULL)
      AvailableRequestedStates = (NULL)
          TransitioningToState = 12
               TimeOfLastReset = (NULL)
             ProtocolSupported = (NULL)
           MaxNumberControlled = (NULL)
           ProtocolDescription = (NULL)
                   BaseAddress = (NULL)
                  MinGrantTime = (NULL)
                    MaxLatency = (NULL)

Expected behavior HealthState should be 5.

Versions:

check_esxi_hardware plugin: 20221230
VMware ESXi: 7.0.3
pywbem: 1.6.1
Python: 3.8.10
Third party tools (Dell OMSA, HP Offline Bundle, etc):

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