The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must initiate session logging upon startup.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-259005	VCEM-80-000013	SV-259005r934673_rule		Medium

Description
Logging must be started as soon as possible when a service starts and as late as possible when a service is stopped. Many forms of suspicious actions can be detected by analyzing logs for unexpected service starts and stops. Also, by starting to log immediately after a service starts, it becomes more difficult for suspicious activity to go unlogged.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance ESX Agent Manager (EAM) Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-10-29

Details

Check Text ( C-62745r934671_chk )
At the command prompt, run the following command: # grep StreamRedirectFile /etc/vmware/vmware-vmon/svcCfgfiles/eam.json Expected output: "StreamRedirectFile" : "%VMWARE_LOG_DIR%/vmware/eam/jvm.log", If no log file is specified for the "StreamRedirectFile" setting, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62654r934672_fix)
Navigate to and open: /etc/vmware/vmware-vmon/svcCfgfiles/eam.json Below the last line of the "PreStartCommandArg" block, add the following line: "StreamRedirectFile" : "%VMWARE_LOG_DIR%/vmware/eam/jvm.log", Restart the service with the following command: # vmon-cli --restart eam