V-259142

Discussion

Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Backing up log records to an unrelated system or onto separate media than the system the web server is actually running on helps to assure that, in the event of a catastrophic system failure, the log records will be retained. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000125-WSR-000071, SRG-APP-000358-WSR-000063, SRG-APP-000358-WSR-000163

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By default there is a vmware-services-applmgmt.conf rsyslog configuration file which includes the service logs when syslog is configured on vCenter that must be verified.

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# cat /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-applmgmt.conf

Expected result:

#applmgmt.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/applmgmt.log"
      Tag="applmgmt"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#applmgmt-audit.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt-audit/applmgmt-audit.log"
      Tag="applmgmt-audit"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#applmgmt-backup-restore-audit.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt-audit/applmgmt-br-audit.log"
      Tag="applmgmt-br-audit"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#vami-access.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/opt/vmware/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
      Tag="vami-access"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#vami-error.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/opt/vmware/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
      Tag="vami-error"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#dcui.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/dcui.log"
      Tag="dcui"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#detwist.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/detwist.log"
      Tag="detwist"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#firewall-reload.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/firewall-reload.log"
      Tag="firewall-reload"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#applmgmt_vmonsvc.std*
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/applmgmt_vmonsvc.std*"
      Tag="applmgmt_vmonsvc"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#backupSchedulerCron
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/backupSchedulerCron.log"
      Tag="backupSchedulerCron"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#progress.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/progress.log"
      Tag="progress"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#statsmoitor-alarms
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/statsmon/statsmoitor-alarms.log"
      Tag="statsmoitor-alarms"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#StatsMonitor
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/statsmon/StatsMonitor.log"
      Tag="StatsMonitor"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#StatsMonitorStartup.log.std*
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/statsmon/StatsMonitorStartup.log.std*"
      Tag="StatsMonitor-Startup"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#PatchRunner
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/PatchRunner.log"
      Tag="PatchRunner"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#update_microservice
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/update_microservice.log"
      Tag="update_microservice"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#vami
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/vami.log"
      Tag="vami"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#vcdb_pre_patch
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/vcdb_pre_patch.*"
      Tag="vcdb_pre_patch"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#dnsmasq.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/dnsmasq.log"
      Tag="dnsmasq"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#procstate
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/procstate"
      Tag="procstate"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#backup.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/backup.log"
      Tag="applmgmt-backup"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#size.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/size.log"
      Tag="applmgmt-size"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#restore.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/restore.log"
      Tag="applmgmt-restore"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#reconciliation.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/reconciliation.log"
      Tag="applmgmt-reconciliation"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")
#pnid_change.log
input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/pnid_change.log"
      Tag="applmgmt-pnid-change"
      Severity="info"
      Facility="local0")

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.