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tc Server API must capture, record, and log all content related to a user session.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-88831 VROM-TC-000150 SV-99481r1_rule Medium
Description
After a security incident has occurred, investigators will often review log files to determine what happened. tc Server HORIZON must create a log entry when a user accesses the system and the system authenticates users. The logs must contain information about user sessions to include what type of event occurred, when (date and time) events occurred, where within the server the events occurred, the client source of the events, the outcome (success or failure) of the event, the identity of the user/subject/process associated with the event. As a Tomcat derivative, tc Server can be configured with an “AccessLogValve”. A Valve element represents a component that can be inserted into the request processing pipeline. The pattern attribute of the “AccessLogValve” controls which data gets logged.
STIG Date
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x tc Server Security Technical Implementation Guide 2018-10-12

Details

Check Text ( C-88523r1_chk )
At the command prompt, execute the following command:

tail /storage/log/vcops/log/suite-api/localhost_access_log.YYYY-MM-dd.txt

Note: Substitute the actual date in the file name.

If all content related to a user session is not being recorded, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-95573r1_fix)
Navigate to and open /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/tomcat-enterprise/conf/server.xml.

Navigate to and locate .

Configure the node with the below.

Note: The “AccessLogValve” should be configured as follows:

directory="logs"
pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b"
prefix="localhost_access_log."
suffix=".txt"/>