"Rsyslog" must be configured to monitor VMware Postgres logs.

For performance reasons, "rsyslog" file monitoring is preferred over configuring VMware Postgres to send events to a "syslog" facility. Without ensuring that logs are created, that "rsyslog" configs are created, and that those configs are loaded, the log file monitoring and shipping will not be effective.

Satisfies: SRG-APP-000359-DB-000319, SRG-APP-000360-DB-000320, SRG-APP-000515-DB-000318

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# rpm -V VMware-Postgres-cis-visl-scripts|grep -E "vmware-services-vmware-vpostgres.conf|vmware-services-vmware-postgres-archiver.conf" | grep "^..5......"

If the command returns any output, this is a finding.

Navigate to and open:

/etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-vmware-vpostgres.conf

Create the file if it does not exist.

Set the contents of the file as follows:

# vmware-vpostgres first logs, before loading configuration input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/serverlog.std*" Tag="vpostgres-first" Severity="info" Facility="local0") # vmware-vpostgres logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/postgresql-*.log" Tag="vpostgres" Severity="info" Facility="local0")

Navigate to and open:

/etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-vmware-postgres-archiver.conf

Create the file if it does not exist.

Set the contents of the file as follows:

# vmware-postgres-archiver logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/pg_archiver.log.std*" Tag="postgres-archiver" Severity="info" Facility="local0")