Performance Charts must properly configure log sizes and rotation.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-256639	VCPF-70-000029	SV-256639r888408_rule		Medium

Description
To ensure the logging mechanism used by the web server has sufficient storage capacity in which to write the logs, the logging mechanism must be able to allocate log record storage capacity. Performance Charts properly sizes and configures log rotation during installation. This default configuration must be verified.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-02-21

Details

Check Text ( C-60314r888406_chk )
At the command prompt, run the following command: # rpm -V VMware-perfcharts|grep log4j|grep "^..5......" If the command returns any output, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-60257r888407_fix)

Navigate to and open: /etc/vmware-perfcharts/log4j.properties Ensure the appender.rolling entries are configured as follows: appender.rolling.type = RollingFile appender.rolling.name = FileLog appender.rolling.fileName = /var/log/vmware/perfcharts/stats.log appender.rolling.filePattern = /var/log/vmware/perfcharts/stats-%i.log appender.rolling.policies.type = Policies appender.rolling.policies.size.type = SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy appender.rolling.policies.size.size = 5MB appender.rolling.strategy.type = DefaultRolloverStrategy appender.rolling.strategy.max = 10 appender.rolling.layout.type = PatternLayout appender.rolling.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX} [%t %-5p %c] %m%n appender.rolling.level = info Note: This fix is currently only applicable to 7.0 U2+ and is different in older versions.