The operating system audit records must be able to be used by a report generation capability.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000053-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000053-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000053-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify a network element that has been configured improperly. In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, it is imperative to correlate the log data from multiple network elements to acquire a clear understanding as to what happened or is happening. The operating system audit records must be able to be consumed by the audit report generation capability. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. Due to remote logging, audit records are stored off-system (where audit logs and analysis tools, such as audit report generators are kept).

Description

Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify a network element that has been configured improperly. In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, it is imperative to correlate the log data from multiple network elements to acquire a clear understanding as to what happened or is happening. The operating system audit records must be able to be consumed by the audit report generation capability. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. Due to remote logging, audit records are stored off-system (where audit logs and analysis tools, such as audit report generators are kept).

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000053-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-000053-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.