STIGUI
V-269519CAT II — Medium severitySV-269519r1050402_rule

AlmaLinux OS 9 must take action when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 95 percent of the audit record storage capacity.

Rule version ALMA-09-053260 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-25

Discussion

If security personnel are not notified immediately when storage volume reaches 75 percent usage, they are unable to plan for audit record storage capacity expansion.

Check

Verify AlmaLinux OS 9 takes action when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 95 percent of the repository maximum audit record storage capacity with the following command:

$ grep -w admin_space_left /etc/audit/auditd.conf

admin_space_left = 5%

If the value of the "admin_space_left" keyword is not set to 5 percent of the storage volume allocated to audit logs, or if the line is commented out, ask the system administrator (SA) to indicate how the system is taking action if the allocated storage is about to reach capacity. If the "space_left" value is not configured to the correct value, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure AlmaLinux OS 9 to initiate an action when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 95 percent of the repository maximum audit record storage capacity by adding/modifying the following line in the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file.

admin_space_left = 5%

Identifiers

Group ID
V-269519
Group title
SRG-OS-000343-GPOS-00134
Rule ID
SV-269519r1050402_rule
Check ID
C-73550r1049911_chk
Fix ID
F-73451r1049912_fix