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The Photon operating system must allocate audit record storage capacity to store audit records when audit records are not immediately sent to a central audit record storage facility.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-258844PHTN-40-000110SV-258844r958752_ruleCCI-001849low
Description
Audit logs are most useful when accessible by date, rather than size. This can be accomplished through a combination of an audit log rotation and setting a reasonable number of logs to keep. This ensures that audit logs are accessible to the ISSO in the event of a central log processing failure.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-06-02

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-258844r958752_chk)

At the command line, run the following command to verify auditd is configured to keep a number of audit logs in the event of a central log processing failure: # grep -E "^num_logs|^max_log_file_action" /etc/audit/auditd.conf Example result: num_logs = 5 max_log_file_action = ROTATE If "num_logs" is not configured to "5" or greater, this is a finding. If "max_log_file_action" is not configured to "ROTATE", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62493r933592_fix)

Navigate to and open: /etc/audit/auditd.conf Ensure the following lines are present, not duplicated, and not commented: num_logs = 5 max_log_file_action = ROTATE At the command line, run the following command: # pkill -SIGHUP auditd