The Photon operating system must allocate audit record storage capacity to store audit records when audit records are not immediately sent to a central audit record storage facility.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-258844	PHTN-40-000110	SV-258844r933593_rule		Low

Description
Audit logs are most useful when accessible by date, rather than size. This can be accomplished through a combination of an audit log rotation and setting a reasonable number of logs to keep. This ensures that audit logs are accessible to the ISSO in the event of a central log processing failure.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-10-29

Details

Check Text ( C-62584r933591_chk )
At the command line, run the following command to verify auditd is configured to keep a number of audit logs in the event of a central log processing failure: # grep -E "^num_logs\|^max_log_file_action" /etc/audit/auditd.conf Example result: num_logs = 5 max_log_file_action = ROTATE If "num_logs" is not configured to "5" or greater, this is a finding. If "max_log_file_action" is not configured to "ROTATE", this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-62584r933591_chk )

At the command line, run the following command to verify auditd is configured to keep a number of audit logs in the event of a central log processing failure:

# grep -E "^num_logs|^max_log_file_action" /etc/audit/auditd.conf

Example result:

num_logs = 5
max_log_file_action = ROTATE

If "num_logs" is not configured to "5" or greater, this is a finding.
If "max_log_file_action" is not configured to "ROTATE", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62493r933592_fix)
Navigate to and open: /etc/audit/auditd.conf Ensure the following lines are present, not duplicated, and not commented: num_logs = 5 max_log_file_action = ROTATE At the command line, run the following command: # pkill -SIGHUP auditd