The system's access control program must log each system access attempt.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN006600-ESXI5-PNF	GEN006600-ESXI5-PNF	GEN006600-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
If access attempts are not logged, then multiple attempts to log on to the system by an unauthorized user may go undetected. 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

If access attempts are not logged, then multiple attempts to log on to the system by an unauthorized user may go undetected. 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-GEN006600-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-GEN006600-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.