The MQ Appliance messaging server must provide a log reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

From IBM MQ Appliance V9.0 AS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-APP-000181-AS-000255

Associated with: CCI-001876 CCI-001920

SV-89563r1_rule The MQ Appliance messaging server must provide a log reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

Vulnerability discussion

The ability to generate on-demand reports, including after the log data has been subjected to log reduction, greatly facilitates the organization's ability to generate incident reports as needed to better handle larger-scale or more complex security incidents.Log reduction is a process that manipulates collected log information and organizes such information in a summary format that is more meaningful to analysts. The report generation capability provided by the application must support on-demand (i.e., customizable, ad-hoc, and as-needed) reports.To fully understand and investigate an incident within the components of the messaging server, the messaging server, when providing a reduction capability, must provide an on-demand reporting capability.Instructions for using the amqsevt sample program to display instrumentation events may be found at the following URL: https://ibm.biz/BdsCzYSatisfies: SRG-APP-000181-AS-000255, SRG-APP-000355-AS-000055

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Confirm that the following command is available and functioning on an authorized MQ client device: amqsevt -m [queue mgr name] {-q SYSTEM.ADMIN.QMGR.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.CONFIG.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.PERFM.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.CHANNEL.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.COMMAND.EVENT} -c -u [user name] If an MQ client application is not enabled to monitor one or more of the above event queues, this is a finding.

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Log record aggregation and reporting for each event-logging-enabled queue manager on the MQ Appliance may be accomplished by running the following command from an authorized MQ client device: amqsevt -m [queue mgr name] {-q SYSTEM.ADMIN.QMGR.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.CONFIG.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.PERFM.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.CHANNEL.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.COMMAND.EVENT} -c -u [user name] Note: Any MQ monitoring solution that can connect to MQ as a client may be used to monitor event queues.

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