Shannon hit it on the head. The xccdf-manual includes "procedural" checks that can not be automated with OVAL. An example of that would be there are government policies mandating proper backups, however there isn't a single system flag or command that can verify this.  The intent is to process "procedural checks" is to use OCIL, however that is still very much evolving.

Note that the disa-stig-* files are included for us to reference while we build out content for the RHEL6 STIG. As a community we wanted to ensure that we inherited RHEL5 STIG controls where appropriate, so we dropped the disa-stig-* files into the RHEL6/references directory to allow developers to double check things. Those files absolutely should not be considered official DISA content!

In regards to SSG output things will still be dropped into rhel6-xccdf-scap-security-guide.xml.

-Shawn



On 8/7/12 4:14 PM, Shannon Mitchell wrote:
I'm just guessing here, but it looks like the manual is meant to be the full thing.  The oval language seems very limited on what it can do, so it only takes care of a small subset of the full set of checks.  The bad thing is that it looks like the nessus scans that I have seen run against my systems check for all of them and not just the 350 in the benchmark.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Willem Bos <whbos@xs4all.nl> wrote:
Hi Shannon,

Thanks. OK, so where do the extra id's come from? I grep-ed the whole
scap-security-guide directory on a id from the *-manual.xml file but -
apart from the file itself - got no results...

Regards,
Willem.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Shannon Mitchell
<shannon.mitchell@merlintechs.com> wrote:
> Every gen Id in the benchmark is in the manual.  The manual contains all 350
> plus an extra 219.
>
> On Aug 7, 2012 1:41 PM, "Willem Bos" <whbos@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jeffrey,
>>
>> Are you sure disa-stig-rhel5-v1r0.6-xccdf-manual.xml is based on
>> disa-stig-rhel5-v1r0.6-xccdf.xml?
>>
>> The *-manual.xml file contains a lot more <title>GEN*</title> tags :
>>
>> grep -c '<title>GEN' U_RedHat_5_V1R0.6_STIG_Benchmark-xccdf.xml
>> 350
>>
>> grep -c '<title>GEN'
>> scap-security-guide/RHEL6/references/disa-stig-rhel5-v1r0.6-xccdf.xml
>> 350
>>
>> grep -c '<title>GEN'
>>
>> scap-security-guide/RHEL6/references/disa-stig-rhel5-v1r0.6-xccdf-manual.xml
>> 569
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing something obvious but like I said, I'm new to this stuff
>> :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Willem.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Jeffrey Blank <blank@eclipse.ncsc.mil>
>> wrote:
>> > This should be the same semantically (as the authoritative version from
>> > iase.disa.mil) -- I just ran it through xmllint (or was it tidy?) to
>> > make it readable in a text editor.  (And yes, I should have documented
>> > this.)
>> >
>> > I really can't remember which, but if you'd like to do a quick re-run of
>> > each and compare, it would certainly be good for us to document its
>> > congruence with the official version :)
>> >
>> > (Also note that we are not the maintainers of that content for RHEL 5.)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 08/06/2012 03:00 AM, Willem Bos wrote:
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> The GIT repo contains the file
>> >> RHEL6/references/disa-stig-rhel5-v1r0.6-xccdf-manual.xml. This is not
>> >> part of the zipfile you can download from
>> >> http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/ncp/repository/checklist/download?id=1059.
>> >>
>> >> I could not find a Makefile target that creates it. What is its origin?
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Willem.