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RHEL 9 audit system must take appropriate action when the audit files have reached maximum size.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

It is critical that when the operating system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure. Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors; failures in the audit capturing mechanisms; and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Responses to audit failure depend upon the nature of the failure mode.

ID
SV-258160r1038966_rule
Version
RHEL-09-653055
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure RHEL 9 to rotate the audit log when it reaches maximum size.

Add or update the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" file:

max_log_file_action = ROTATE