Detections
Analytics

1.4 VCSA-80-000034

Information

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

GROUP ID: V-258907RULE ID: SV-258907r960891

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.

Solution

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

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23621

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-3, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000130, Rule-ID|SV-258907r960891_rule, STIG-ID|VCSA-80-000034, Vuln-ID|V-258907

Plugin: VMware

Control ID: a7856876ec9a0fa2fb9803b18be7741db2e4124f681dc34acb1a012d0edf9f8c