AIX must start audit at boot.

If auditing is enabled late in the start-up process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is enabled before a given process is created.

Check if /etc/rc contains the following line: /usr/sbin/audit start

# grep "audit start" /etc/rc /usr/sbin/audit start

If a result is not returned, this is a finding.

To start auditing at system startup, add the following line to the /etc/rc file, just prior to the line reading dspmsg rc.cat 5 'Multi-user initialization completed': /usr/sbin/audit start

Symmetrically add the '/usr/sbin/audit shutdown' command to /etc/rc.shutdown.