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The vCenter PostgreSQL service must initiate session auditing upon startup.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-259170VCPG-80-000009SV-259170r960888_ruleCCI-001464medium
Description
Session auditing is for use when a user's activities are under investigation. To be sure of capturing all activity during those periods when session auditing is in use, it needs to be in operation for the whole time the database management system (DBMS) is running.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-06-02

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 2 frameworks
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (29) 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.

AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-6(9)Log Use of Privileged Functions
1.00
AU-10Non-repudiation
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-12(3)Changes by Authorized Individuals
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-14(2)Capture and Record Content
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00

+19 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001464
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-259170r960888_chk)

At the command prompt, run the following command: # /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -A -t -c "SHOW log_destination;" Example result: stderr If "log_destination" is not set to "stderr" or "syslog", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62819r935413_fix)

A script is included with vCenter to generate a PostgreSQL STIG configuration. At the command prompt, run the following commands: # chmod +x /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/vmw_vpg_config/vmw_vpg_config.py # /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/vmw_vpg_config/vmw_vpg_config.py --action stig_enable --pg-data-dir /storage/db/vpostgres # chmod -x /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/vmw_vpg_config/vmw_vpg_config.py Restart the PostgreSQL service by running the following command: # vmon-cli --restart vmware-vpostgres