OpenShift must use internal system clocks to generate audit record time stamps.

Knowing when a sequence of events for an incident occurred is crucial to understand what may have taken place. Without a common clock, the components generating audit events could be out of synchronization and would then present a picture of the event that is warped and corrupted. To give a clear picture, it is important that the container platform and its components use a common internal clock.

Verify the chronyd service is enabled and active by executing the following:

for node in $(oc get node -oname); do oc debug $node -- chroot /host /bin/bash -c 'echo -n "$HOSTNAME "; systemctl is-enabled chronyd.service; systemctl is-active chronyd.service' 2>/dev/null; done

If the auditd service is not "enabled" and "active", this is a finding.

Apply the machine config to use internal system clocks for audit records by executing the following:

for mcpool in $(oc get mcp -oname | sed "s:.*/::" ); do echo "apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfig metadata: name: 80-chronyd-service-enable-$mcpool labels: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: $mcpool spec: config: ignition: version: 3.1.0 systemd: units: - name: chronyd.service enabled: true " | oc apply -f - done