The operating system must provide the capability to capture/record and log all content related to a user session.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000252-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000252-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000252-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Session auditing activities are developed, integrated, and used in consultation with legal counsel in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, or regulations. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. In the directory /var/log, auth.log records ESXi Shell authentication success and failure, shell.log records ESXi Shell usage logs, including enable/disable and every command entered, and syslog.log records management service initialization, watchdogs, scheduled tasks and DCUI use.

Description

Session auditing activities are developed, integrated, and used in consultation with legal counsel in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, or regulations. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. In the directory /var/log, auth.log records ESXi Shell authentication success and failure, shell.log records ESXi Shell usage logs, including enable/disable and every command entered, and syslog.log records management service initialization, watchdogs, scheduled tasks and DCUI use.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000252-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-000252-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.