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PHTN-40-000021 - The Photon operating system must alert the ISSO and SA in the event of an audit processing failure.
Warning! Audit Deprecated
This audit has been deprecated and will be removed in a future update.
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It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected.Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded.
Satisfies: SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022, SRG-OS-000344-GPOS-00135
Solution
Navigate to and open:/etc/audit/auditd.conf
Ensure the following lines are present, not duplicated, and not commented:
disk_full_action = SYSLOG
disk_error_action = SYSLOG
admin_space_left_action = SYSLOG
At the command line, run the following command:
# pkill -SIGHUP auditd
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-000139, CCI|CCI-001858, Rule-ID|SV-258810r958424_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-40-000021, Vuln-ID|V-258810
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 708720ac796f69af132a7106c747d4a04320f3cb91e397c4d54062f758e39400