False positives in compliance benchmarks

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

1. You are seeing false results in the compliance benchmark for NSX. Aria Operations is triggering the following 2 alerts regarding syslog servers, backup SFTP, and backup schedule.

NSX Instance is violating VMware Cloud Foundation Audit Guide for version 4.5 and above

NSX is violating VMware NSX Security Configuration Guide

2. All of the above are configured properly.

3. The alerts keep triggering, even though they are canceled, the object was put in and out of maintenance mode, and the same symptoms these 2 alerts triggered on are configured in place and functioning.

 

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18.x

Resolution

Workaround:

Reconfigure NSX backup and syslog servers by following VMware NSX 4.2 Documentation.