The ESXi host must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-207631	ESXI-65-000030	SV-207631r378616_rule		Low

Description
Without establishing what types of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 6.5 ESXi Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-09-22

Details

Check Text ( C-7886r364292_chk )
From the vSphere Web Client select the ESXi Host and go to Configure >> System >> Advanced System Settings. Select the Config.HostAgent.log.level value and verify it is set to "info". or From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host run the following command: Get-VMHost \| Get-AdvancedSetting -Name Config.HostAgent.log.level If the Config.HostAgent.log.level setting is not set to info, this is a finding. Note: Verbose logging level is acceptable for troubleshooting purposes.

Check Text ( C-7886r364292_chk )

From the vSphere Web Client select the ESXi Host and go to Configure >> System >> Advanced System Settings. Select the Config.HostAgent.log.level value and verify it is set to "info".

or

From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host run the following command:

Get-VMHost | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name Config.HostAgent.log.level

If the Config.HostAgent.log.level setting is not set to info, this is a finding.

Note: Verbose logging level is acceptable for troubleshooting purposes.

Fix Text (F-7886r364293_fix)
From the vSphere Web Client select the ESXi Host and go to Configure >> System >> Advanced System Settings. Click Edit and select the Config.HostAgent.log.level value and configure it to "info". or From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host run the following commands: Get-VMHost \| Get-AdvancedSetting -Name Config.HostAgent.log.level \| Set-AdvancedSetting -Value "info"