The ESXi must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Without establishing what types of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-VMM-000150, SRG-OS-000063-VMM-000310
- ID
- SV-258733r958412_rule
- Version
- ESXI-80-000015
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
From the vSphere Client, go to Hosts and Clusters.
Select the ESXi Host >> Configure >> System >> Advanced System Settings.
Click "Edit". Select the "Config.HostAgent.log.level" value and configure it to "info".