MACsec tasks at a glance

To configure MACsec, perform the following tasks:

1. Enabling MKA

2. (Optional.) Enabling MACsec desire

3. Configuring a preshared key

   This task is required in device-oriented mode. Do not perform this task in client-oriented mode.

4. (Optional.) Configuring the MKA key server priority

5. (Optional.) Configuring MACsec protection parameters

   Choose one of the following tasks:

   • Configuring MACsec protection parameters in interface view

   • Configuring MACsec protection parameters by MKA policy

6. (Optional.) Enabling MKA session logging