Rule ID
SV-255769r961863_rule
Version
V1R2
By immediately displaying an alarm message, potential security violations can be identified more quickly even when administrators are not logged into the MQ Appliance network device. An example of a mechanism to facilitate this would be through the use of SNMP traps. Using a syslog logging target, the MQ Appliance logs all audit and system events. Logging may be set to the following logging levels in descending order of criticality: debug, info, notice, warn, error, alert, emerg. The default is notice. It is the responsibility of the sysadmin to configure the triggers necessary to send alerts based upon information received at the syslog server.
Log on to the MQ Appliance CLI as a privileged user. Enter: co show logging target All configured logging targets will be displayed. Verify: - This list includes a remote syslog notification target; and - It includes all desired log event source and log level parameters: event audit info event auth notice event mgmt notice event cli notice event user notice event system error Ask the system admin to provide evidence the required alert triggers have been set up. If any is not true, this is a finding.
Log on to the MQ Appliance CLI as a privileged user. To enter global configuration mode, enter "config". To create a syslog target, enter: logging target <logging target name> type syslog admin-state enabled local-address <MQ Appliance IP> remote-address <syslog server IP> remote-port <syslog server port> event audit info event auth notice event mgmt notice event cli notice event user notice event system error exit write mem y It is the responsibility of the sysadmin to configure the triggers necessary to send alerts based upon information received at the syslog server. To meet the current requirement, the sysadmin must specify threat event patterns that should trigger alerts. Then, the sysadmin must configure alerts that will occur in response to those event patterns. Ideas for trigger event patterns can be gained from an examination of the existing syslog.