The system must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of maximum audit record storage capacity.

From PostgreSQL 9.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-APP-000359-DB-000319

Associated with: CCI-001855

SV-87675r2_rule The system must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of maximum audit record storage capacity.

Vulnerability discussion

Organizations are required to use a central log management system, so, under normal conditions, the audit space allocated to PostgreSQL on its own server will not be an issue. However, space will still be required on PostgreSQL server for audit records in transit, and, under abnormal conditions, this could fill up. Since a requirement exists to halt processing upon audit failure, a service outage would result.If support personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75%, they are unable to plan for storage capacity expansion. The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the ISSO and the DBA/SA.

Check content

Review system configuration. If no script/tool is monitoring the partition for the PostgreSQL log directories, this is a finding. If appropriate support staff are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75%, this is a finding.

Fix text

Note: The following instructions use the PGDATA and PGVER environment variables. See supplementary content APPENDIX-F for instructions on configuring PGDATA and APPENDIX-H for PGVER. Configure the system to notify appropriate support staff immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75%.  PostgreSQL does not monitor storage, however, it is possible to monitor storage with a script.  ##### Example Monitoring Script  #!/bin/bash  PGDATA=/var/lib/psql/${PGVER?}/data  CURRENT=$(df ${PGDATA?} | grep / | awk '{ print $5}' | sed 's/%//g')  THRESHOLD=75  if [ "$CURRENT" -gt "$THRESHOLD" ] ; then  mail -s 'Disk Space Alert' mail@support.com << EOF  The data directory volume is almost full. Used: $CURRENT  %EOF  fi  Schedule this script in cron to run around the clock.

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