Detections
Analytics
VCEM-80-000013 - The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must initiate session logging upon startup.
Information
Logging must be started as soon as possible when a service starts and as late as possible when a service is stopped. Many forms of suspicious actions can be detected by analyzing logs for unexpected service starts and stops. Also, by starting to log immediately after a service starts, it becomes more difficult for suspicious activity to go unlogged.Solution
Navigate to and open:/etc/vmware/vmware-vmon/svcCfgfiles/eam.json
Below the last line of the "PreStartCommandArg" block, add the following line:
"StreamRedirectFile" : "%VMWARE_LOG_DIR%/vmware/eam/jvm.log",
Restart the service with the following command:
# vmon-cli --restart eam
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_8-0_Y25M07_STIG.zip
Item Details
Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
References: 800-53|AU-14(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001464, Rule-ID|SV-259005r960888_rule, STIG-ID|VCEM-80-000013, Vuln-ID|V-259005
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: adb5e51ba0c3f91a7b68711430bfeba6507202a6920f7b63523ddfa4f2837e3c