Postgres Enterprise Manager 9.5.0 release notes v9

Released: 15 Feb 2024

New features, enhancements, bug fixes, and other changes in PEM 9.5.0 include:

TypeDescription
EnhancementAdded EmailGroup and EmailGroupID in webhook payload.
EnhancementAdded an alert template to validate password expiry for users in EDB Postgres Advanced Server. Also modified the alert template A user expired in N days to Number of users expiring in N days that checks the number of users expiring.*
EnhancementAdded a button on the Manage Probes window that resets the probe configurations to the defaults.
EnhancementAdded a Cleared Alert button in notifications. This gives you the flexibility to disable notifications for cleared alerts while still receiving notifications when alerts occur.
EnhancementYou can now create your own web server certificates, as EDB details are no longer added to the web server certificates generated by PEM.
EnhancementAdded a capability to identify the user who changed the blackout status, date, and time.
Bug fixFixed an issue where a deleted custom probe was still visible in the Probe Dependency tab of Alert Templates.
Bug fixFixed a missing permission issue by granting the pem_agent user permission to the custom_email_template table.
Bug fixExcluded zero-sized tables from PEM alert template largest index by table-size percentage. Also added a detailed SQL statement for this template.
Bug fixFixed an issue whereby the CLI attempted to call an obsolete version of the PEM API, resulting in commands failing.
Bug fixNow, the members of the pem_user and pem_manage_efm roles can access the EFM features. The member of the pem_user and pem_server_service_managerrole can start/stop the database service from PEM GUI.
Bug fixAdded application_name column in the session_info probe.
Bug fixFixed the too few arguments exception for the webhooks.
Bug fixResolved the issue where the User column displayed the current username logged into the PEM user interface in the chart display of the pg_hba.conf file. Now it displays the respective usernames in the pg_hba.conf file.
Bug fixFixed a Dashboard info not found error while opening the dashboards in the user interface.

  1. Alerts configured using the outgoing alert template A user expired in N days must be recreated using the new template.