The operating system audit records must be able to be used by a report generation capability.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
RHEL-06-000140-PNF	RHEL-06-000140-PNF	RHEL-06-000140-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify a network element that has been configured improperly. In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, it is imperative to correlate the log data from multiple network elements to acquire a clear understanding as to what happened or is happening. The operating system audit records must be able to be consumed by the audit report generation capability.

Description

Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify a network element that has been configured improperly. In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, it is imperative to correlate the log data from multiple network elements to acquire a clear understanding as to what happened or is happening. The operating system audit records must be able to be consumed by the audit report generation capability.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-02-05

Details

Check Text ( C-RHEL-06-000140-PNF_chk )
RHEL6 supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-RHEL-06-000140-PNF_fix)
This requirement is a permanent not a finding. No fix is required.