The vCenter Envoy service log files must be sent to a central log server.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-259164	SRG-APP-000358-WSR-000063	VCRP-80-000097	SV-259164r961395_rule	2024-07-11	2

Description
Writing events to a centralized management audit system offers many benefits to the enterprise over having dispersed logs. Centralized management of audit records and logs provides for efficiency in maintenance and management of records, enterprise analysis of events, and backup and archiving of event records enterprise-wide. The web server and related components are required to be capable of writing logs to centralized audit log servers.

Description

Writing events to a centralized management audit system offers many benefits to the enterprise over having dispersed logs. Centralized management of audit records and logs provides for efficiency in maintenance and management of records, enterprise analysis of events, and backup and archiving of event records enterprise-wide. The web server and related components are required to be capable of writing logs to centralized audit log servers.

ℹ️ Check
By default, there is a vmware-services-envoy.conf rsyslog configuration file that includes the service logs when syslog is configured on vCenter, but it must be verified. At the command prompt, run the following command: # cat /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-envoy.conf Expected result: #envoy service log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy.log" Tag="envoy-main" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy access log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy-access.log" Tag="envoy-access" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stdout input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stdout" Tag="envoy-stdout" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stderr input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stderr" Tag="envoy-stderr" Severity="info" Facility="local0") If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

ℹ️ Check

By default, there is a vmware-services-envoy.conf rsyslog configuration file that includes the service logs when syslog is configured on vCenter, but it must be verified. At the command prompt, run the following command: # cat /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-envoy.conf Expected result: #envoy service log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy.log" Tag="envoy-main" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy access log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy-access.log" Tag="envoy-access" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stdout input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stdout" Tag="envoy-stdout" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stderr input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stderr" Tag="envoy-stderr" Severity="info" Facility="local0") If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Navigate to and open: /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-envoy.conf Create the file if it does not exist. Set the contents of the file as follows: #envoy service log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy.log" Tag="envoy-main" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy access log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy-access.log" Tag="envoy-access" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stdout input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stdout" Tag="envoy-stdout" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stderr input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stderr" Tag="envoy-stderr" Severity="info" Facility="local0")

✔️ Fix

Navigate to and open: /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-envoy.conf Create the file if it does not exist. Set the contents of the file as follows: #envoy service log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy.log" Tag="envoy-main" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy access log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy-access.log" Tag="envoy-access" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stdout input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stdout" Tag="envoy-stdout" Severity="info" Facility="local0") #envoy init stderr input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy_init.log.stderr" Tag="envoy-stderr" Severity="info" Facility="local0")