| Operating system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control, includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, file names involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Success and failure indicators ascertain the outcome of a particular event. As such, they also provide a means to measure the impact of an event and help authorized personnel to determine the appropriate response. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. Logging is enabled by default and cannot be configured (no -l option). 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. |
