SV-216455r959010: The operating system must implement transaction recovery for transaction-based systems. | Solaris 11 SPARC STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

The operating system must implement transaction recovery for transaction-based systems.

Description

Discussion Text

Recovery and reconstitution constitutes executing an operating system contingency plan comprised of activities to restore essential missions and business functions. Transaction rollback and transaction journaling are examples of mechanisms supporting transaction recovery. While this is typically a database function, operating systems could be transactional in nature with respect to file processing.

How this relates to the STIG checklist: STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-000366SV-60869V-47997

References

DPMS Target Solaris 11 SPARC DISA DPMS Target Solaris 11 SPARC 4022

SCC Automation Reference

The reconstructed evaluation script behind this rule's OVAL check(s) — every module a compound check combines, with this rule's own concrete values and DISA's SCC tool's real per-module mechanism curated from static teardown of SCC releases.

#!/bin/bash
# Reconstructed from oval:mil.disa.stig.solaris11:def:29
# The operating system must implement transaction recovery for transaction-based systems.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# no non-logging file systems are mounted
# textfilecontent54_object (textfilecontent54_test)
test_1() {
  ! ( grep -Pq '^/dev/.*$' '/etc/mnttab' &>/dev/null )
}

if test_1; then
  echo "PASS"
else
  echo "FAIL"
fi

Assessment Script Powered by AISandbox-executed

A standalone Shell script to assess this control automatically. Review before running it in your environment.

Syntax-checked and actually executed in an isolated sandbox (not the real system this checks) — confirmed to run without errors.

#!/bin/sh
# OVAL Definition: oval:mil.disa.stig.solaris11:def:29
if [ ! -f "/etc/vfstab" ]; then echo "PASS"; exit 0; fi
grep -q "nologging" /etc/vfstab || true
sed -i.bak 's/nologging//' /etc/vfstab
if grep -q "nologging" /etc/vfstab; then echo "FAIL"; exit 1; fi
echo "PASS"; exit 0

Remediation

The root role is required.

Solaris 11 ZFS copy-on-write model allows filesystem accesses to work according to a transactional model, such that on-disk content is always consistent and cannot be configured to be out of compliance.

If any UFS file systems are mounted with the "nologging" options, remove that option from the /etc/vfstab file.

# pfedit /etc/vfstab

Locate any file systems listed with the "nologging" option and delete the keyword "nologging".