OL 8 must notify the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume 75 percent utilization.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
If security personnel are not notified immediately when storage volume reaches 75 percent utilization, they are unable to plan for audit record storage capacity expansion.
- ID
- SV-248819r971542_rule
- Version
- OL08-00-030731
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Configure the operating system to initiate an action to notify the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of the repository maximum audit record storage capacity by adding/modifying the following line in the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file.
space_left_action = email
Note: Option names and values in the auditd.conf file are case insensitive.