STIGUI
V-219993CAT II — Medium severitySV-219993r971542_rule

The audit system must alert the SA when the audit storage volume approaches its capacity.

Rule version SOL-11.1-010370 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

Filling the audit storage area can result in a denial of service or system outage and can lead to events going undetected.

Check

This check applies to the global zone only. Determine the zone that you are currently securing.

# zonename

If the command output is "global", this check applies.

The root role is required.

Verify the presence of an audit_warn entry in /etc/mail/aliases. # /usr/lib/sendmail -bv audit_warn If the response is: audit_warn... User unknown

this is a finding.

Review the output of the command and verify that the audit_warn alias notifies the appropriate users in this form:

audit_warn:user1,user2

If an appropriate user is not listed, this is a finding.

Fix

The root role is required.

This action applies to the global zone only. Determine the zone that you are currently securing.

# zonename

If the command output is "global", this action applies.

Add an audit_warn alias to /etc/mail/aliases that will forward to designated system administrator(s).

# pfedit /etc/mail/aliases

Insert a line in the form: audit_warn:user1,user2

Put the updated aliases file into service. # newaliases

Identifiers

Group ID
V-219993
Group title
SRG-OS-000343
Rule ID
SV-219993r971542_rule
Check ID
C-21703r372490_chk
Fix ID
F-21702r372491_fix