The operating system must configure auditing to reduce the likelihood of storage capacity being exceeded.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000045-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000045-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000045-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
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, 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. Care must be taken to evaluate that the audit records being produced do not exceed the storage capacity. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. Auditing is turned on by default, as is logging. Syslog is the best way to ensure all access is logged.

Description

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, 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. Care must be taken to evaluate that the audit records being produced do not exceed the storage capacity. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. Auditing is turned on by default, as is logging. Syslog is the best way to ensure all access is logged.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000045-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-SRG-OS-000045-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.