ArubaOS Compliance Checks

Check Type

All ArubaOS compliance checks must be bracketed with the check_type encapsulation with the ArubaOS designation:

This is required to differentiate ArubaOS .audit files from those intended for other platforms.

Checks

The following sections describe the checks you can add to a single audit file.

• BANNER_CHECK

• CONFIG_CHECK and CONFIG_CHECK_NOT

• CMD_EXEC

BANNER_CHECK

This policy item checks if the registry item or file content matches the content provided by normalizing the values to use common newline, escaping patterns, and stripping white space from the beginning and end of policy text.

Usage

content

The content is what the expected banner should be. New lines in the banner are automatically processed through functions that determine delimiters and context.

is_substring

An optional flag that supports the possibility of location specific information being placed in a banner. If set to YES, the expected banner can be a substring of the file content, and not require a full match.

Examples

CONFIG_CHECK and CONFIG_CHECK_NOT

The CONFIG_CHECK check analyzes the configuration for regular expressions to identify if a configuration is set.

The CONFIG_CHECK_NOT check gives the opposite result as CONFIG_CHECK, and analyzes the configuration to identify if a regular expression is not present, which indicates the configuration is not set.

Usage

context

(Optional) The context is a regular expression that returns one or more subsets of the configuration. When the context matches a line, it returns that line and any other lines directly below it that are indented more than the initial matching line. Multiple contexts can be used to narrow down then searchable configuration.

Contexts are evaluated independently. If one context fails, the entire check evaluation fails.

Contexts are defined as code in the following format:

regex

(Optional) The regex is used to filter the full configurations, or each of the context configurations, to a smaller set of lines of text based on the regular expression. Multiple regex can be used to narrow down the searchable configuration, and they are applied in the order that they are listed in the check.

item

The evaluation is based on item.

• For CONFIG_CHECK, if the regular expression in the item matches a line of text, the check results as PASSED. If there are no matches, the check results as FAILED.
• For CONFIG_CHECK_NOT, if the regular expression in the item matches a line of text, the check results as FAILED. If there are no matches, the check results as PASSED.

To indicate if all lines need to match or that lines are case-sensitive, use the modifiers match_all or match_case.

match_all

(Optional) Set match_all to YES to require all lines of text to match the expectation, and not just a single line of text. If you set match_all to the default of NO, only one line must match for the check to pass.

match_case

(Optional) Set match_case to YES to make the comparison case-sensitive. Set match_case to the default of NO to make the comparison case-insensitive.

min_occurrences

Specifies the minimum number of occurrences of the configuration item required to pass the audit.

This is useful in cases where a minimum number of servers (NTP, DNS, etc.) should be present.

Example:

min_occurrences: "3"

max_occurrences

Specifies the maximum number of occurrences of the configuration item allowed to pass the audit.

This is useful in cases when checking items such as a single local account should exist (account of last resort).

Example:

max_occurrences: "1"

Example

CMD_EXEC

The CMD_EXEC check runs a command and analyze the output with regular expressions to identify if a command matches the expected output.

If CMD_EXEC is used in an offline scan, a warning states that the command is not able to run in offline mode.

Usage

Keywords

cmd

The cmd is the command that should be run on the target. Only show commands are supported.

regex

(Optional) (Optional) The regex is used to filter the full configurations, or each of the context configurations, to a smaller set of lines of text based on the regular expression. Multiple regex can be used to narrow down the searchable configuration, and they are applied in the order that they are listed in the check.

expect or not_expect

The evaluation is based on expect or not_expect. Use only one of these fields in a check.

• For expect, if the regular expression matches a line of text, the check results as PASSED. If there are no matches, the check results as FAILED.
• For not_expect, if the regular expression matches a line of text, the check results as FAILED. If there are no matches, the check results as PASSED.

To indicate if all lines need to match or that lines are case-sensitive, use the modifiers match_all or match_case.

match_all

(Optional) (Optional) Set match_all to YES to require all lines of text to match the expectation, and not just a single line of text. If you set match_all to the default of NO, only one line must match for the check to pass.

match_case

(Optional) (Optional) Set match_case to YES to make the comparison case-sensitive. Set match_case to the default of NO to make the comparison case-insensitive.

Example