Operating system must support the capability to centralize the review and analysis of audit records from multiple components within the system.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000051-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000051-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000051-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis in order to allow the organization to identify and respond to potential incidents in a proficient manner. Segregation of logging data to multiple disparate computer systems is counterproductive and makes log analysis and log event alarming difficult to implement and manage, particularly when the system or application has multiple logging components written to different locations or systems. To support the centralized capability, the operating system must be able to provide the information in a format that can be extracted and used allowing the application performing the centralization of the log records to meet this requirement. Permanent not a finding - Remote logging is a VMware HG requirement. Due to remote logging, audit records are stored off-system.

Description

Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis in order to allow the organization to identify and respond to potential incidents in a proficient manner. Segregation of logging data to multiple disparate computer systems is counterproductive and makes log analysis and log event alarming difficult to implement and manage, particularly when the system or application has multiple logging components written to different locations or systems. To support the centralized capability, the operating system must be able to provide the information in a format that can be extracted and used allowing the application performing the centralization of the log records to meet this requirement. Permanent not a finding - Remote logging is a VMware HG requirement. Due to remote logging, audit records are stored off-system.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000051-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-000051-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.