The MQ Appliance messaging server must provide a log reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>The ability to generate on-demand reports, including after the log data has been subjected to log reduction, greatly facilitates the organization's ability to generate incident reports as needed to better handle larger-scale or more complex security incidents. Log reduction is a process that manipulates collected log information and organizes such information in a summary format that is more meaningful to analysts. The report generation capability provided by the application must support on-demand (i.e., customizable, ad-hoc, and as-needed) reports. To fully understand and investigate an incident within the components of the messaging server, the messaging server, when providing a reduction capability, must provide an on-demand reporting capability. Instructions for using the amqsevt sample program to display instrumentation events may be found at the following URL: https://ibm.biz/BdsCzY Satisfies: SRG-APP-000181-AS-000255, SRG-APP-000355-AS-000055</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-89563r1_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Log record aggregation and reporting for each event-logging-enabled queue manager on the MQ Appliance may be accomplished by running the following command from an authorized MQ client device:
amqsevt -m [queue mgr name] {-q SYSTEM.ADMIN.QMGR.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.CONFIG.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.PERFM.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.CHANNEL.EVENT | -q SYSTEM.ADMIN.COMMAND.EVENT} -c -u [user name]
Note: Any MQ monitoring solution that can connect to MQ as a client may be used to monitor event queues.