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V-256701

CAT II (Medium)

Rsyslog must be configured to monitor and ship ESX Agent Manager log files.

Rule ID

SV-256701r888659_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance EAM Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R2

CCIs

CCI-001348, CCI-001851

Discussion

ESX Agent Manager has a number of logs that must be offloaded from the originating system. This information can then be used for diagnostic, forensics, or other purposes relevant to ensuring the availability and integrity of the hosted application. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000358-WSR-000163, SRG-APP-000125-WSR-000071

Check Content

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# rpm -V VMware-visl-integration|grep vmware-services-eam.conf|grep "^..5......"

If the command returns any output, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Navigate to and open:

/etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-eam.conf

Create the file if it does not exist.

Set the contents of the file as follows:

#eam.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/eam/eam.log"
      Tag="eam-main"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#eam web access logs
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/eam/web/localhost_access.log"
      Tag="eam-access"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#eam jvm logs
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/eam/jvm.log.stdout"
      Tag="eam-stdout"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/eam/jvm.log.stderr"
      Tag="eam-stderr"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#eam catalina logs
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/eam/web/catalina.log"
      Tag="eam-catalina"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#eam catalina localhost logs
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/eam/web/localhost.log"
      Tag="eam-catalina"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#eam firstboot logs
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/firstboot/eam_firstboot.py*.log"
      Tag="eam-firstboot"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")