The vCenter Envoy service log files must be sent to a central log server.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-259164	VCRP-80-000097	SV-259164r935396_rule		Medium

Description

Writing events to a centralized management audit system offers many benefits to the enterprise over having dispersed logs. Centralized management of audit records and logs provides for efficiency in maintenance and management of records, enterprise analysis of events, and backup and archiving of event records enterprise-wide. The web server and related components are required to be capable of writing logs to centralized audit log servers.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Envoy Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-10-29

Details

Check Text ( C-62904r935394_chk )

By default, there is a vmware-services-envoy.conf rsyslog configuration file that includes the service logs when syslog is configured on vCenter, but it must be verified. At the command prompt, run the following command: # cat /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-envoy.conf Expected result: #envoy service log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy.log" Tag="envoy-main" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy access log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy-access.log" Tag="envoy-access" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stdout input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stdout" Tag="envoy-stdout" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stderr input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stderr" Tag="envoy-stderr" Severity="info" Facility="local0") If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62813r935395_fix)

Navigate to and open: /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-envoy.conf Create the file if it does not exist. Set the contents of the file as follows: #envoy service log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy.log" Tag="envoy-main" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy access log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy-access.log" Tag="envoy-access" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stdout input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stdout" Tag="envoy-stdout" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stderr input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stderr" Tag="envoy-stderr" Severity="info" Facility="local0")