STIGUI
V-271601CAT II — Medium severitySV-271601r1091515_rule

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

Rule version OL09-00-000875 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

If action is not taken when storage volume reaches 95 percent utilization, the auditing system may fail when the storage volume reaches capacity.

Check

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

$ sudo 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 OL 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-271601
Group title
SRG-OS-000343-GPOS-00134
Rule ID
SV-271601r1091515_rule
Check ID
C-75651r1091513_chk
Fix ID
F-75558r1091514_fix