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VCPF-80-000062 The vCenter Perfcharts service must be configured to fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails.

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Information

Determining a safe state for failure and weighing that against a potential denial of service for users depends on what type of application the web server is hosting. It is preferable that the service abort startup on any initialization failure rather than continuing in a degraded, and potentially insecure, state.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/catalina.properties

Add or change the following line:

org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE=true

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart perfcharts

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_8-0_Y24M08_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001190, Rule-ID|SV-259080r961122_rule, STIG-ID|VCPF-80-000062, Vuln-ID|V-259080

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 57ac83a9fe4f0811104ddc9b96980c1eb91f816f22e68371bc7811362cf2ac0f