The vCenter Server must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-258907	VCSA-80-000034	SV-258907r960891_rule		Medium

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 8.0 vCenter Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-07-11

Details

Check Text ( C-62647r934377_chk )
From the vSphere Client, go to Host and Clusters. Select a vCenter Server >> Configure >> Settings >> Advanced Settings. Verify the "config.log.level" value is set to "info". or From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the vCenter server, run the following command: Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity -Name config.log.level and verify it is set to "info". If the "config.log.level" value is not set to "info" or does not exist, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-62647r934377_chk )

From the vSphere Client, go to Host and Clusters.

Select a vCenter Server >> Configure >> Settings >> Advanced Settings.

Verify the "config.log.level" value is set to "info".

or

From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the vCenter server, run the following command:

Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity -Name config.log.level and verify it is set to "info".

If the "config.log.level" value is not set to "info" or does not exist, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62556r934378_fix)
From the vSphere Client, go to Host and Clusters. Select a vCenter Server >> Configure >> Settings >> Advanced Settings. Click "Edit Settings" and configure the "config.log.level" setting to "info". or From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the vCenter server, run the following command: Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity -Name config.log.level \| Set-AdvancedSetting -Value info