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V-213621

CAT II (Medium)

The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide centralized configuration of the content to be captured in audit records generated by all components of the EDB Postgres Advanced Server.

Rule ID

SV-213621r879729_rule

STIG

EDB Postgres Advanced Server v9.6 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R3

CCIs

CCI-001844

Discussion

If the configuration of the DBMS's auditing is spread across multiple locations in the database management software, or across multiple commands, only loosely related, it is harder to use and takes longer to reconfigure in response to events. The DBMS must provide a unified tool for audit configuration.

Check Content

If a unified tool for audit configuration such as PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager) is not installed and configured to automatically collect audit logs, this is a finding.

Review the system documentation for a description of how audit records are off-loaded and how local audit log space is managed.

Fix Text

Install a centralized log collecting tool and configure it as instructed in its documentation. 

If using PEM, find the instructions at 
http://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/6.0/pemgetstarted/toc.html