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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.

Information

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

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-5(2), 800-53|AU-5a., 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