Lighttpd must be configured to use syslog.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-240260	VRAU-LI-000400	SV-240260r879731_rule		Medium

Description
Writing events to a centralized management audit system offers many benefits to the enterprise over having dispersed logs. Centralized management of audit records and logs provides for efficiency in maintenance and management of records, enterprise analysis of events, and backup and archiving of event records enterprise-wide. The web server and related components are required to be capable of writing logs to centralized audit log servers.

Description

Writing events to a centralized management audit system offers many benefits to the enterprise over having dispersed logs. Centralized management of audit records and logs provides for efficiency in maintenance and management of records, enterprise analysis of events, and backup and archiving of event records enterprise-wide. The web server and related components are required to be capable of writing logs to centralized audit log servers.

STIG	Date
VMware vRealize Automation 7.x Lighttpd Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-09-12

Details

Check Text ( C-43493r667955_chk )
At the command prompt, execute the following command: grep 'accesslog.use-syslog' /opt/vmware/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf \| grep -v ^# If the value for "accesslog.use-syslog" is not set to "enable" or is missing, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43452r667956_fix)
Navigate to and open /opt/vmware/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf Configure the lighttpd.conf file with the following: accesslog.use-syslog = "enable"