The operating system must produce a system-wide (logical or physical) audit trail composed of audit records in a standardized format.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000218-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000218-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000218-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Audits records can be generated from various components within the operating system. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is typically a subset of the list of all events for which the system is capable of generating audit records (i.e., auditable events). 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. Access is limited to privileged roles only. In lockdown mode (required), only the vpxuser proxy has access.

Description

Audits records can be generated from various components within the operating system. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is typically a subset of the list of all events for which the system is capable of generating audit records (i.e., auditable events). 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. Access is limited to privileged roles only. In lockdown mode (required), only the vpxuser proxy has access.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000218-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-000218-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.