RHEL 8 must notify the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume 75 percent utilization.

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

Verify RHEL 8 notifies the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of the repository maximum audit record storage capacity with the following command:

$ sudo grep -w space_left_action /etc/audit/auditd.conf

space_left_action = email

If the value of the "space_left_action" is not set to "email", or if the line is commented out, ask the System Administrator to indicate how the system is providing real-time alerts to the SA and ISSO.

If there is no evidence that real-time alerts are configured on the system, this is a finding.

Configure the operating system to initiate an action to notify the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of the repository maximum audit record storage capacity by adding/modifying the following line in the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file.

space_left_action = email

Note: Option names and values in the auditd.conf file are case insensitive.