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VCUI-80-000081 The vCenter UI service must offload log records onto a different system or media from the system being logged.

Information

Information system logging capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Log record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes, but is not limited to, time stamps, source and destination IP addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, application-specific events, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.

Offloading is a common process in information systems with limited log storage capacity.

Centralized management of log records provides for efficiency in maintenance and management of records, as well as the backup and archiving of those records. Application servers and their related components are required to offload log records onto a different system or media than the system being logged.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

vmware-services-vsphere-ui.conf

Create the file if it does not exist.

Set the contents of the file as follows:

#vsphere-ui main log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/vsphere_client_virgo.log"
 Tag="ui-main"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui change log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/changelog.log"
 Tag="ui-changelog"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui dataservice log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/dataservice.log"
 Tag="ui-dataservice"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui apigw log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/apigw.log"
 Tag="ui-apigw"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui equinox log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/equinox.log"
 Tag="ui-equinox"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui event log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/eventlog.log"
 Tag="ui-eventlog"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui op id log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/opId.log"
 Tag="ui-opid"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui performance audit log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/performanceAudit.log"
 Tag="ui-performanceAudit"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui plugin-medic log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/plugin-medic.log"
 Tag="ui-plugin-medic"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui threadmonitor log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/threadmonitor.log"
 Tag="ui-threadmonitor"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui threadpools log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/threadpools.log"
 Tag="ui-threadpools"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui vspheremessaging log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/vspheremessaging.log"
 Tag="ui-vspheremessaging"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui rpm log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/vsphere-ui-rpm.log"
 Tag="ui-rpm"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui runtime log stdout
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/vsphere-ui-runtime.log*"
 Tag="ui-runtime-stdout"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui runtime log stderr
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/vsphere-ui-runtime.log*"
 Tag="ui-runtime-stderr"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui access log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/access/localhost_access_log.txt"
 Tag="ui-access"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui gc log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/vsphere-ui-gc*"
 Tag="ui-gc"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui firstboot log
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/firstboot/vsphere_ui_firstboot*"
 Tag="ui-firstboot"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui catalina
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/catalina.*.log"
 Tag="ui-runtime-catalina"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui endpoint
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/endpoint.log"
 Tag="ui-runtime-endpoint"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui localhost
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/localhost.*.log"
 Tag="ui-runtime-localhost"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")
#vsphere-ui vsan
input(type="imfile"
 File="/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/vsan-plugin.log"
 Tag="ui-runtime-vsan"
 Severity="info"
 Facility="local0")

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_8-0_Y24M08_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-4(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001851, Rule-ID|SV-259117r961395_rule, STIG-ID|VCUI-80-000081, Vuln-ID|V-259117

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 2bd00e8aaed8147ffe77b17f4c69763c1df731b0641ea4f167cfcec422d7220c