Nutanix AOS must produce audit records containing information to establish where events occurred.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-254166	NUTX-OS-000640	SV-254166r846586_rule		Medium

Description

Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. To compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know where events occurred, such as operating system components, modules, device identifiers, node names, file names, and functionality. Associating information about where the event occurred within the operating system provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured operating system.

STIG	Date
Nutanix AOS 5.20.x OS Security Technical Implementation Guide	2022-08-24

Details

Check Text ( C-57651r846584_chk )
Verify the operating system produces audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred. Determine if auditing is active by issuing the following command: $ sudo systemctl is-active auditd.service active If the "auditd" status is not active, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-57602r846585_fix)
Enable the auditd service to run automatically. $ sudo systemctl enable auditd