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Status Not under consideration
Workspace WebSphere traditional
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 23, 2021

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The Useable WebSphere Auditing Functions Are Required by the Department of Defense

The current WAS Auditing function does provide readily useable logs to even track down simple events such as starting/stopping an application server via the WAS Admin Console. I would like to see such functionality added to the NDM audit logs.


I also sending up an excel spreadsheet that outlines all the requirements for application server auditing for any WebSphere server deployed within a Department of Defense environment as specified by the Application Server V3.1 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) as maintained by Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). So that mean any WAS server deployed within the US Navy, US Airforce, US Army or other Federal environments.


The issues in the spreadsheet are considered CAT II issues and not adhering to these requirements or having a Plan of Action/Mitigation (POAM) would prevent an project from getting its Authority To Operate (ATO).

Idea priority High
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    Gary Picher
    Sep 23, 2021

    Hi, and thank you for submitting this request for enhancement! Just so I am sure that I understand what the request is before I begin to evaluate it, can you confirm that you are asking us to provide an auditing event that will record the start and stop of application servers when those starts and stops are driven via the WebSphere Admin Console UI? Currently, we do audit those starts and stops when driven via wsadmin, but we do not when driven via the Admin Console.

    If you can confirm that this is the support you are asking for, then I will continue to evaluate. Thanks!

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