The operating system must alert designated organizational officials in the event of an audit processing failure.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000046-ESXI5-PF	SRG-OS-000046-ESXI5-PF	SRG-OS-000046-ESXI5-PF_rule		Medium

Description
It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include, software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Permanent finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. This duplicates GEN002719.

Description

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include, software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Permanent finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. This duplicates GEN002719.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000046-ESXI5-PF_chk )
ESXi does not support this requirement. This is a permanent finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-000046-ESXI5-PF_fix)
This requirement is a permanent finding and cannot be fixed. An appropriate mitigation for the system must be implemented but this finding cannot be considered fixed.