Huawei log monitoring with Log360

Overview

Huawei network devices are critical components in modern enterprise infrastructure, handling everything from firewalling and routing to VPN access and system health monitoring. These devices generate a wealth of operational and security-related logs that are essential for maintaining visibility, detecting threats, and ensuring compliance.

ManageEngine Log360 seamlessly ingests logs from Huawei environments to provide centralized, real-time monitoring of Huawei devices. By collecting, parsing, and correlating logs from firewalls, switches, routers, VPNs, and custom applications, Log360 empowers organizations to identify anomalies, detect policy violations, and streamline compliance audits. Whether monitoring unauthorized access, configuration changes, or unusual traffic patterns, Log360 enhances Huawei log management as part of a unified SIEM platform.

How Log360 collects and analyzes Huawei logs

Log360 offers flexible integration options for Huawei devices, supporting a wide range of deployment models across on-premises, hybrid, and distributed networks.

Supported collection methods:

• Syslog-based collection: Huawei devices are configured to forward logs in Syslog format (RFC 3164 or RFC 5424) to the Log360 server over UDP (default port 513 and 514) or TCP (configurable port, commonly 514 for secure Syslog over TLS 515 port). This method requires no agents and is highly scalable for large Huawei environments.
• Custom log ingestion: Supports Huawei logs in standard Syslog formats (RFC 5424 and RFC 3164) by default, making it compatible with most Huawei routers, switches, firewalls, and VPN appliances. For non-standard log formats or Huawei applications that generate custom logs, Log360’s custom log parser allows tailored ingestion, parsing, and categorization based on your specific logging configuration.

Log processing pipeline:

Once collected, Huawei logs are parsed, normalized, enriched with metadata (like device identifiers and timestamps), and securely stored. These logs are then fed into Log360’s analytics engine for real-time alerting, pattern recognition, threat correlation, and compliance reporting.

Monitoring capabilities

Log360 collects and analyzes Huawei logs across several categories:

• Router, switch, and network device logs: Track system uptime, interface health, packet flow statistics, routing decisions, switching behavior, and link layer events to ensure operational performance and network stability.
• Firewall logs: Capture traffic logs, dropped packet details, rule hits, NAT activity, and intrusion detection events for perimeter security monitoring.
• VPN logs: Audit tunnel creations, user access logs, session duration, and error states for remote access visibility and security assurance.
• Custom logs: Ingest logs from Huawei-specific platforms or in-house systems hosted on or integrated with Huawei infrastructure, ensuring complete log visibility across your environment.

Critical Huawei events monitored

Log360 tracks and provides insights into essential Huawei device activities, including:

• User authentication: Successful and failed login attempts across VPNs, switches, firewalls, and routers.
• Device health and status: Hardware failures, CPU and memory usage, system reboots, and interface up or down states.
• Configuration changes: Modifications to firewall rules, routing tables, NAT configurations, and network settings.
• Traffic flow: Abnormal data flows, port scanning, policy violations, and unusual traffic to or from critical assets.
• VPN and remote access: VPN session initiations, terminations, failed tunnel attempts, and anomalous access behavior.
• Security events: IDS and IPS detections, access control violations, and suspicious external IP communication.

Key benefits of integrating Huawei with Log360

Log360 offers strategic advantages for organizations monitoring Huawei infrastructure, including:

• Centralized visibility: Gain a unified view of logs across all Huawei devices, removing the need for device-by-device monitoring.
• Real-time threat detection: Detect security threats instantly with built-in correlation rules and anomaly-based alerting.
• Advanced analytics: Visualize and analyze traffic, configuration, and access trends to identify anomalies and optimize operations.
• Compliance support: Generate audit-ready reports mapped to frameworks like the PCI DSS, the GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.
• Operational insights: Track uptime, device resource usage, and system availability to maintain resilient network infrastructure.

Addressing Huawei-specific security challenges

ManageEngine Log360 addresses common operational and security challenges faced in Huawei environments:

The Log360 advantage: Beyond Huawei logs

Log360 isn't limited to Huawei device monitoring—it amplifies security operations through a unified SIEM platform:

• Cross-platform correlation: Correlate Huawei logs with data from Windows, Linux, firewalls, and cloud services to uncover multi-stage attacks.
• Integrated UEBA: Detect insider threats and compromised accounts using machine-learning-based behavior baselining.
• Threat intelligence: Enrich Huawei logs with threat feed lookups to spot known malicious IPs, domains, and indicators of compromise.
• Centralized platform : Investigate alerts, search logs, track user behavior, and manage compliance—all from one centralized console.

Explore Huawei use cases

Want to see real-world scenarios? Discover how Log360 helps monitor and secure Huawei devices against unauthorized access, configuration drift, VPN misuse, and performance issues.