diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/SCMSecurityProtocolServer.java b/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/SCMSecurityProtocolServer.java
index e810c54b12..ab29c1ede7 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/SCMSecurityProtocolServer.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/SCMSecurityProtocolServer.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.scm.HddsServerUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.scm.ScmConfigKeys;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.SCMSecurityProtocol;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.KerberosInfo;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ public class SCMSecurityProtocolServer implements SCMSecurityProtocol {
     rpcAddress = HddsServerUtil
         .getScmSecurityInetAddress(conf);
     // SCM security service RPC service.
+    RPC.setProtocolEngine(conf, SCMSecurityProtocolPB.class,
+        ProtobufRpcEngine.class);
     BlockingService secureProtoPbService =
         SCMSecurityProtocolProtos.SCMSecurityProtocolService
             .newReflectiveBlockingService(
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/TestSCMSecurityProtocolServer.java b/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/TestSCMSecurityProtocolServer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8e7d84c4dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/TestSCMSecurityProtocolServer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with this
+ * work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF
+ * licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
+ * the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.hdds.scm.server;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.conf.OzoneConfiguration;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.rules.Timeout;
+
+/**
+ * Test class for {@link SCMSecurityProtocolServer}.
+ * */
+public class TestSCMSecurityProtocolServer {
+  private SCMSecurityProtocolServer securityProtocolServer;
+  private OzoneConfiguration config;
+
+  @Rule
+  public Timeout timeout = new Timeout(1000 * 20);
+
+  @Before
+  public void setUp() throws Exception {
+    config = new OzoneConfiguration();
+    securityProtocolServer = new SCMSecurityProtocolServer(config, null);
+  }
+
+  @After
+  public void tearDown() throws Exception {
+    if (securityProtocolServer != null) {
+      securityProtocolServer.stop();
+      securityProtocolServer = null;
+    }
+    config = null;
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testStart() {
+    securityProtocolServer.start();
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testStop() {
+    securityProtocolServer.stop();
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/integration-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/TestSecureOzoneCluster.java b/hadoop-ozone/integration-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/TestSecureOzoneCluster.java
index a0119b21fe..3d3462650e 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/integration-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/TestSecureOzoneCluster.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/integration-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/TestSecureOzoneCluster.java
@@ -298,7 +298,8 @@ public void testSecureKsmInitializationSuccess() throws Exception {
     } catch (Exception ex) {
       // Expects timeout failure from scmClient in KSM but KSM user login via
       // kerberos should succeed
-      Assert.assertTrue(logs.getOutput().contains("KSM login successful"));
+      Assert.assertTrue(
+          logs.getOutput().contains("Ozone Manager login successful."));
     }
   }