Postgres Enterprise Manager 9.6.0 release notes v9

Released: 15 May 2024

New features, enhancements, bug fixes, and other changes in PEM 9.6.0 include:

TypeDescription
EnhancementAdded an option to enable probes using the pemworker utility.
EnhancementPEM now includes the error message in email notifications of a failed job. The default character limit for error output is 1000, which can be configured now using the job_notification_error_limit parameter in the server configuration.
EnhancementAdded two alert templates (Inactive replication slots and Conflicting replication slots) and two probes (Replication slots and Multixact ID Exhaustion (Wraparound)).
EnhancementThe default display name for a newly registered agent is now the host's fully qualified domain name (FQDN), falling back to the previous default of the hostname if the FQDN isn't set.
EnhancementUpdated the alert template Table size in server/database/schema with more detailed SQL query.
EnhancementAdded an option to download the Capacity Manager report in JSON format.
EnhancementYou can now specify a CA Certificate path when registering a Barman server using pemworker without having to specify a client certificate and key.
Bug fixFixed an issue where audit manager was setting edb_audit_statement parameter to '' instead of 'none' when log statement parameter was left empty in the GUI resulting in failure of server restart.
Bug fixFixed an issue where os_info probe was throwing error whenever timezone/timestamp were changed to some specific values.
Bug fixFixed an issue whereby an error "NoneType has no len()" occurred when alerts were listed on the alert dashboard.
Bug fixFixed an issue where team role wasn't working with PEM agents as expected.
Bug fixFixed an issue with the SQL query for the PEM agent registration. Added the public schema name in the table prefix to execute the SQL query successfully even if the schema name isn't in the search path.