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VCWN-06-000036 - The system must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.

Information

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 Web Client go to vCenter Inventory Lists >> vCenter Servers >> Select your vCenter Server >> Manage >> Settings >> Advanced Settings. Click Edit and edit the config.log.level setting to info or if the value does not exist create it by entering the values in the Key and Value fields and clicking Add.

or

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

If the setting already exists:

Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity <vcenter server name> -Name config.log.level | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value info

If the setting does not exist:

New-AdvancedSetting -Entity <vcenter server name> -Name config.log.level -Value info

See Also

http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_VMware_vSphere_6-0_vCenter_Server_for_Windows_V1R4_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-12, CAT|III, CCI|CCI-002702, Group-ID|V-64013, Rule-ID|SV-78503r1_rule, STIG-ID|VCWN-06-000036, Vuln-ID|V-64013

Plugin: VMware

Control ID: 6cbc567d6f50cc7aa389a25011858c9a8e26e0a9dbd8ca32959ff574a99993e2