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V-256321

CAT II (Medium)

The vCenter Server must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.

Rule ID

SV-256321r885574_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R3

CCIs

CCI-000130

Discussion

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.

Check Content

From the vSphere Client, go to Host and Clusters.

Select a vCenter Server >> Configure >> Settings >> Advanced Settings.

Verify the "config.log.level" value is set to "info".

or

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

Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity <vcenter server name> -Name config.log.level and verify it is set to "info".

If the "config.log.level" value is not set to "info" or does not exist, this is a finding.

Fix Text

From the vSphere Client, go to Host and Clusters.

Select a vCenter Server >> Configure >> Settings >> Advanced Settings.

Click "Edit Settings" and configure the "config.log.level" setting to "info".

or

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

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