Ensure ‘logging to monitor’ is disabled

Details

Disables the logging to monitor

Rationale:

The ASA by default send logs to monitor for Telnet and SSH sessions. The logs messages will continuously scroll on the monitor after the ‘Terminal Monitor’ command is issued. This consumes a lot of resources causing high CPU usage and should be avoided.

Solution

Run the following command to disable the logging monitor

hostname(config)#no logging monitor

Default Value:

The logging monitor is disabled by default

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Cisco.

References

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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