The vCenter Perfcharts service must offload log records onto a different system or media from the system being logged.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-259084	VCPF-80-000081	SV-259084r934910_rule		Medium

Description

Information system logging capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Log record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes, but is not limited to, time stamps, source and destination IP addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, application-specific events, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Offloading is a common process in information systems with limited log storage capacity. Centralized management of log records provides for efficiency in maintenance and management of records, as well as the backup and archiving of those records. Application servers and their related components are required to offload log records onto a different system or media than the system being logged.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-10-29

Details

Check Text ( C-62824r934908_chk )

By default, a vmware-services-perfcharts.conf rsyslog configuration file includes the service logs when syslog is configured on vCenter, but it must be verified. At the command prompt, run the following command: # cat /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-perfcharts.conf Expected result: #stats input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/stats.log" Tag="perfcharts-stats" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #localhost_access_log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/localhost_access_log.txt" Tag="perfcharts-localhost_access" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #vmware-perfcharts-gc.log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/vmware-perfcharts-gc.log.*.current" Tag="perfcharts-gc" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #vmware-perfcharts-runtime.log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/vmware-perfcharts-runtime.log.std*" Tag="perfcharts-runtime" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #tomcat/catalina_log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/tomcat/catalina.*.log" Tag="perfcharts-tomcat-catalina" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #tomcat/localhost_log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/tomcat/localhost.*.log" Tag="perfcharts-tomcat-localhost" Severity="info" Facility="local0") If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62733r934909_fix)

Navigate to and open: /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-perfcharts.conf Create the file if it does not exist. Set the contents of the file as follows: #stats input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/stats.log" Tag="perfcharts-stats" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #localhost_access_log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/localhost_access_log.txt" Tag="perfcharts-localhost_access" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #vmware-perfcharts-gc.log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/vmware-perfcharts-gc.log.*.current" Tag="perfcharts-gc" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #vmware-perfcharts-runtime.log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/vmware-perfcharts-runtime.log.std*" Tag="perfcharts-runtime" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #tomcat/catalina_log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/tomcat/catalina.*.log" Tag="perfcharts-tomcat-catalina" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #tomcat/localhost_log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/perfcharts/tomcat/localhost.*.log" Tag="perfcharts-tomcat-localhost" Severity="info" Facility="local0")