The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must off-load log records onto a different system or media from the system being logged.

Information system logging capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Log record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes, but is not limited to, time stamps, source and destination IP addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, application-specific events, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.

Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited log storage capacity.

Centralized management of log records provides for efficiency in maintenance and management of records, as well as the backup and archiving of those records. Application servers and their related components are required to off-load log records onto a different system or media than the system being logged.

By default, a vmware-services-eam.conf rsyslog configuration file includes the service logs when syslog is configured on vCenter, but it must be verified.

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# cat /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-eam.conf

Expected result:

#eam.log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/eam.log" Tag="eam-main" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam_api.log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/eam_api.log" Tag="eam-api" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam web access logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/web/localhost_access.log" Tag="eam-access" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam jvm logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/jvm.log.stdout" Tag="eam-stdout" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/jvm.log.stderr" Tag="eam-stderr" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam catalina logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/web/catalina.log" Tag="eam-catalina" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam catalina localhost logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/web/localhost.log" Tag="eam-catalina" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam firstboot logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/firstboot/eam_firstboot.py*.log" Tag="eam-firstboot" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on")

Note: If the entries for "deleteStateOnFileDelete" or "reopenOnTruncate" are not present, this is not a finding.

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Navigate to and open:

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

Create the file if it does not exist.

Set the contents of the file as follows:

#eam.log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/eam.log" Tag="eam-main" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam_api.log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/eam_api.log" Tag="eam-api" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam web access logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/web/localhost_access.log" Tag="eam-access" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam jvm logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/jvm.log.stdout" Tag="eam-stdout" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/jvm.log.stderr" Tag="eam-stderr" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam catalina logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/web/catalina.log" Tag="eam-catalina" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam catalina localhost logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/eam/web/localhost.log" Tag="eam-catalina" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") #eam firstboot logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/firstboot/eam_firstboot.py*.log" Tag="eam-firstboot" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on")