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The vCenter Lookup service must be configured to fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Determining a safe state for failure and weighing that against a potential denial of service for users depends on what type of application the web server is hosting. It is preferable that the service abort startup on any initialization failure rather than continuing in a degraded, and potentially insecure, state.

ID
SV-259046r961122_rule
Version
VCLU-80-000062
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-lookupsvc/conf/catalina.properties

Add or change the following line: