Nutanix AOS must off-load log records onto a different system or media from the system being logged.

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, access control or flow control rules invoked.

Off-loading 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 off-load log records onto a different system or media than the system being logged.

Satisfies: SRG-APP-000358-AS-000064, SRG-APP-000515-AS-000203

Confirm the Nutanix VM application server is configured to off-load log records onto a different system.

$ ncli rsyslog-config ls-servers

If no remote syslog servers are defined, this is a finding.

Configure the Nutanix VM application server to off-load log records onto a different system by running the following command:

$ ncli rsyslog-config add-server name=<remote_server_name> relp-enabled=<true | false> ip-address=<remote_ip_address> port=<port_num> network-protocol=<tcp | udp>