Configuring MAC Addresses as User Names for MAC Address Authentication

This section provides a sample of configuring MAC addresses as user names for MAC address authentication using the merge method. You can also use the create method to configure MAC addresses as user names for MAC address authentication.

**Table 1** Configuring MAC addresses as user names for MAC address authentication
Operation	XPATH
edit-config:merge	/huawei-nac-mac:mac-access/configure-mode/unified-mode/mac-access-profile/user-name-format/mac-address/mac-address-format

Data Requirement

**Table 2** Configuring MAC addresses as user names for MAC address authentication
Item	Data	Description
name	test	Configure MAC addresses as user names for MAC address authentication. The MAC access profile must exist on the switch.
mac-address-format	with-hyphen-normal

Request Example

<rpc xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="43a8e485-35d2-499e-895c-e2d2d5f555a8">
 <edit-config>
  <target>
   <running/>
  </target>
  <error-option>rollback-on-error</error-option>
  <config>
   <mac-access xmlns="urn:huawei:params:xml:ns:yang:huawei-nac-mac">
    <mac-access-profile>
     <name>test</name>
     <mac-address-format>with-hyphen-normal</mac-address-format>
    </mac-access-profile>
   </mac-access>
  </config>
 </edit-config>
</rpc>

Response Example

Sample of successful response

<rpc-reply xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="43a8e485-35d2-499e-895c-e2d2d5f555a8">
 <ok/>
</rpc-reply>

Sample of failed response

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<rpc-reply xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="11">
  <rpc-error>
    <error-app-tag>-1</error-app-tag>
    <error-message>CMD is incomplete, para fixed or macaddress must have one.</error-message>
    <error-info>Error on node /huawei-nac-mac:mac-access/mac-access-profile[name="mactest"]/letter</error-info>
  </rpc-error>
</rpc-reply>