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SLEM 5 must offload audit records onto a different system or media from the system being audited.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.

ID
SV-261416r996660_rule
Version
SLEM-05-653040
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure SLEM 5 to take the appropriate action if it cannot offload audit records to a different system or storage media from the system being audited due to a network failure.

Add or modify the following line in the "/etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf" file:

network_failure_action = syslog