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

From HP-UX 11.31 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with IA controls: ECSC-1

Associated with: CCI-000143

SV-29653r1_rule The audit system must alert the SA when the audit storage volume approaches its capacity.

Vulnerability discussion

An accurate and current audit trail is essential for maintaining a record of system activity. If the system fails, the SA must be notified and must take prompt action to correct the problem.Minimally, the system must log this event and the SA will receive this notification during the daily system log review. If feasible, active alerting (such as e-mail or paging) should be employed consistent with the site’s established operations management systems and procedures.

Check content

Determine if the audit system is configured to generate warnings when the audit storage volume approaches capacity. Procedure: # cat /etc/rc.config.d/auditing | grep AUDOMON_ARGS | grep "\-w" If the -w parameter does not exist, this is a finding. If the number following the -w parameter (which represents the threshold for percentage of capacity) is greater than 90, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit the AUDOMON_ARGS parameter of the /etc/rc.config.d/auditing file to include -w 90.

Pro Tips

Lavender hyperlinks in small type off to the right (of CSS class id, if you view the page source) point to globally unique URIs for each document and item. Copy the link location and paste anywhere you need to talk unambiguously about these things.

You can obtain data about documents and items in other formats. Simply provide an HTTP header Accept: text/turtle or Accept: application/rdf+xml.