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Performance Charts must properly configure log sizes and rotation.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-256639VCPF-70-000029SV-256639r888408_ruleCCI-001849medium
Description
To ensure the logging mechanism used by the web server has sufficient storage capacity in which to write the logs, the logging mechanism must be able to allocate log record storage capacity. Performance Charts properly sizes and configures log rotation during installation. This default configuration must be verified.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide2023-02-21

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

MON-04Event Log Storage Capacity
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (14) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
AU-3(1)Additional Audit Information
1.00
AU-4Audit Log Storage Capacity
1.00
AU-4(1)Transfer to Alternate Storage
1.00
AU-5Response to Audit Logging Process Failures
1.00
AU-5(1)Storage Capacity Warning
1.00
AU-5(2)Real-time Alerts
1.00
AU-7Audit Record Reduction and Report Generation
1.00

+4 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001849
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-256639r888408_chk)

At the command prompt, run the following command: # rpm -V VMware-perfcharts|grep log4j|grep "^..5......" If the command returns any output, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-60257r888407_fix)

Navigate to and open: /etc/vmware-perfcharts/log4j.properties Ensure the appender.rolling entries are configured as follows: appender.rolling.type = RollingFile appender.rolling.name = FileLog appender.rolling.fileName = /var/log/vmware/perfcharts/stats.log appender.rolling.filePattern = /var/log/vmware/perfcharts/stats-%i.log appender.rolling.policies.type = Policies appender.rolling.policies.size.type = SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy appender.rolling.policies.size.size = 5MB appender.rolling.strategy.type = DefaultRolloverStrategy appender.rolling.strategy.max = 10 appender.rolling.layout.type = PatternLayout appender.rolling.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX} [%t %-5p %c] %m%n appender.rolling.level = info Note: This fix is currently only applicable to 7.0 U2+ and is different in older versions.