PowerFlex: Error INVALID_POSTGRES_INSTANCE_ROLE After 4.8 PFMP upgrade

Summary: This article explains the steps to clear the cosmetic alert INVALID_POSTGRES_INSTANCE_ROLE after upgrade from 4.6 to 4.8

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Symptoms

After upgrade from 4.6 to 4.8 the below alerts is triggered and is not cleared by acknowledging the alert 

INVALID_POSTGRES_INSTANCE_ROLE

Cause

these are stale alerts from the old CrunchyData PGO database instances (postgres-ha-cmo1-*) that were replaced by CloudNativePG (postgres-ha-cnpg-*) during the 4.8 upgrade.

The old pods and PVCs are gone, the new CNPG cluster is healthy, but the health monitoring configmap still references the old instances, which is why the alerts keep re-firing. 

Resolution

  1. Check DB health State 
    delladmin@mvm1:~>kubectl get pods -n powerflex | grep post
    configure-postgres-prerequirements-0-hw95r                0/1     Completed   0             47d
    postgres-ha-cnpg-1                                        1/1     Running     0             47d
    postgres-ha-cnpg-2                                        1/1     Running     0             47d
    postgres-ha-cnpg-3                                        1/1     Running     0             86m
    postgres-ha-cnpg-pooler-556778f6fd-2tmd9                  1/1     Running     0             21d
    postgres-ha-cnpg-pooler-556778f6fd-qnp8k                  1/1     Running     0             21d
    postgres-monitor-7fd88546c7-h6tjn                         1/1     Running     0             21d
    postgres-monitor-7fd88546c7-l2wk7                         1/1     Running     0             21d
  2. If all DB instanses are Running, manually clear the alerts using this article PowerFlex 4.X: How To Manually Clear Alerts From 4.X PowerFlex Manager UI
  3. Restart/delete the presentation-service pod to flush cached state 
kubectl delete pod -n powerflex $(kubectl get pods -n powerflex | grep presentation | awk '{print $1}')

Affected Products

PowerFlex rack, ScaleIO
Article Properties
Article Number: 000453497
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
Version:  1
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