Overview

Puppet controls are Puppet defined types that ensure a certain security control is implemented. Puppet changes the system in order to make the system compliant.

Description of the control

The notifylevel parameter specifies the type of administration notification messages that are written to the administration notification log. It is recommended that this parameter be set greater than or equal to 3. A setting of 3, which includes settings 1 & 2, will log all fatal errors, failing services, system integrity, as well as system health.

Rationale

The system should be monitoring all Health Monitor alarms, warnings, and attentions. This may give an indication of any malicious usage on the DB2 instance.

Skipping

To deliberately skip this control (e.g. meaning don’t use Puppet to enforce this setting), we provide you with two ways:

1) Add db2_secured::controls::set_administrative_notification_level: skip to your hiera data. This will skip this control for ALL systems.
3) Add an entry with the content set_administrative_notification_level to the array value db2_secured::skip_list in your hiera data.

Benchmarks

This control is used in the following benchmarks:

Attributes

Attribute Name Short Description
title The database identifier to apply the control to.

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The database identifier to apply the control to.

All controls need an database identifier to apply the control to. Here is a simple example:

db2_secured::controls::control_name { 'db2inst1/MYDB':}

In this example, the string dbinst1 is the instance, the string MYDB is the database to apply the control to.

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