Performance Charts must limit the number of allowed connections.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Limiting the number of established connections to Performance Charts is a basic denial-of-service protection. Servers where the limit is too high or unlimited could run out of system resources and negatively affect system availability.
- ID
- SV-256629r888378_rule
- Version
- VCPF-70-000019
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Navigate to and open:
/usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml
Configure the <Connector> node with the value: