The operating system must configure auditing to reduce the likelihood of storage capacity being exceeded.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

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ID: SV-219996r854556_rule
Severity: High
References: CCI-001849
Updated: 9 months ago

The Audit Control profile is required.

This action applies to the global zone only. Determine the zone that you are currently securing.

# zonename
If the command output is "global", this action applies.

Set the size of a binary audit file to a specific size. The size is specified in megabytes.

# pfexec auditconfig -setplugin audit_binfile p_fsize=4M

Restart the audit system.

# pfexec audit -s

The operating system must configure auditing to reduce the likelihood of storage capacity being exceeded.

Description

Remediation - Manual Procedure