Nutanix AOS must produce audit records containing information to establish when events occurred.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-254165	NUTX-OS-000630	SV-254165r958414_rule		Medium

Description
Without establishing when events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. To compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know when events occurred (date and time). Associating event types with detected events in the operating system audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured operating system.

Description

Without establishing when events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. To compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know when events occurred (date and time). Associating event types with detected events in the operating system audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured operating system.

STIG	Date
Nutanix AOS 5.20.x OS Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-06-18

Details

Check Text ( C-57650r846581_chk )
Verify the operating system produces audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred. Determine if auditing is active by issuing the following command: $ sudo systemctl is-active auditd.service active If the "auditd" status is not active, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-57601r846582_fix)
Enable the auditd service to run automatically. $ sudo systemctl enable auditd