The SLES for vRealize must produce audit records.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-239453	VROM-SL-000085	SV-239453r661810_rule		Medium

Description
Without establishing what type of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Associating event types with detected events in the SLES for vRealize audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured operating system.

Description

Without establishing what type of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Associating event types with detected events in the SLES for vRealize audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured operating system.

STIG	Date
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x SLES Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-09-21

Details

Check Text ( C-42686r661808_chk )
Verify SLES for vRealize produces audit records by running the following command to determine the current status of the "auditd" service: # service auditd status If the service is enabled, the returned message must contain the following text: Checking for: service auditd running If the service is not running, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-42645r661809_fix)
Enable the "auditd" service by performing the following commands: # chkconfig auditd on # service auditd start