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V-256691

CAT II (Medium)

ESX Agent Manager must limit the number of allowed connections.

Rule ID

SV-256691r888629_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance EAM Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R2

CCIs

CCI-001094

Discussion

Limiting the number of established connections to the ESX Agent Manager is a basic denial-of-service protection. Servers where the limit is too high or unlimited could run out of system resources and negatively affect system availability.

Check Content

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# xmllint --xpath '/Server/Service/Connector/@acceptCount' /usr/lib/vmware-eam/web/conf/server.xml

Expected result:

acceptCount="300"

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

Fix Text

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-eam/web/conf/server.xml

Configure the <Connector> node with the value:

acceptCount="300"

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart eam