LMS 4.0 - Invisible faults

Since I installed LMS 4, the Faults panel at the top of the screen always reports 4 critical faults. When I click on the red icon to go to the Fault Monitor, I get "No faults are available" (screenshot attached).
Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks

The quickest way is to reinitialize the DFM databases by following the instructions in https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-8796 . However, if you want a more tactical analysis you can open a TAC service request, and they can go through the dfmEpm database to look at why these counters are wrong. The counters should be showing the total number of events, which are the atomic conditions occurring on the devices. This would not necessarily line up to the alerts seen at the top level of the Fault Monitor. However, in your case since you don't see any alerts, you shouldn't have any events.

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