The SLES for vRealize must notify System Administrators and Information System Security Officers when accounts are removed.

From VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x SLES Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-001686

SV-99299r1_rule The SLES for vRealize must notify System Administrators and Information System Security Officers when accounts are removed.

Vulnerability discussion

When SLES for vRealize accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual SLES for vRealize users or for identifying the SLES for vRealize processes themselves.In order to detect and respond to events that affect user accessibility and system processing, SLES for vRealize must audit account removal actions and, as required, notify System Administrators and Information System Security Officers (ISSO) so they can investigate the event. Such a capability greatly reduces the risk that operating system accessibility will be negatively affected for extended periods of time and also provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes.To address access requirements, many operating systems can be integrated with enterprise-level authentication/access/auditing mechanisms that meet or exceed access control policy requirements.

Check content

Check the syslog configuration file for remote syslog servers: # cat /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf | grep logserver If no line is returned, or the "logserver" is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit the syslog configuration file and add an appropriate remote syslog server: In the "/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf" file, the remote logging entries must be uncommented and the IP address must be modified to point to the remote syslog server: # # Enable this and adopt IP to send log messages to a log server. # #destination logserver { udp("10.10.10.10" port(514)); }; #log { source(src); destination(logserver); };

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