Successful and unsuccessful logins and logouts must be logged.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN000440-ESXI5-PNF	GEN000440-ESXI5-PNF	GEN000440-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Monitoring and recording successful and unsuccessful logins assists in tracking unauthorized access to the system. Without this logging, the ability to track unauthorized activity to specific user accounts may be diminished. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. In the directory /var/log, auth.log records ESXi Shell authentication success and failure, shell.log records ESXi Shell usage logs, including enable/disable and every command entered, and syslog.log records management service initialization, watchdogs, scheduled tasks and DCUI use.

Description

Monitoring and recording successful and unsuccessful logins assists in tracking unauthorized access to the system. Without this logging, the ability to track unauthorized activity to specific user accounts may be diminished. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. In the directory /var/log, auth.log records ESXi Shell authentication success and failure, shell.log records ESXi Shell usage logs, including enable/disable and every command entered, and syslog.log records management service initialization, watchdogs, scheduled tasks and DCUI use.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN000440-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-GEN000440-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.