10.10.5 Fault Logging

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The problem management system should provide for adequate audit trail facilities that allow tracking, analyzing, and determining the root cause of all reported problems considering:

  • All associated configuration items
  • Outstanding problems and incidents
  • Known and suspected errors

Managing problems and incidents addresses how an organization identifies documents and responds to events that fall outside of normal operations. You must maintain a complete and accurate audit trail for network devices, servers and applications, This enables you to address how your business identify root causes of issues that may introduce inaccuracy in reporting. Also, your problem management system must provide for adequate audit trail facilities that allow tracing from incident to underlying cause.

By alerting on any failures that occur, administrators can respond rapidly to potential problems and incidents that might affect availability, security, or performance. Real-time data monitoring and reporting capabilities reduce time to repair after incidents, reducing costs, and improving application availability.

To achieve this control objective, administrators must ensure all reporting related network devices, servers, and applications are properly configured to log to a centralized server. Administrators must also periodically review logging status to ensure that these devices, servers and applications are logging correctly.

System event data must be sufficiently retained to provide chronological information and logs to enable the review, examination and reconstruction of system and data processing. System event data can also be used to provide reasonable assurance as to the completeness and timeliness of system and data processing.

Reports and Alerts

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