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NAME

       iscsiadm - open-iscsi administration utility

SYNOPSIS

       iscsiadm  -m  discoverydb [-hV] [-d debug_level] [-P printlevel] [.BI -I  iface  -t  type
       -p  ip:port [-lD] ] | [ [-p ip:port -t type] [-o operation] [-n name] [-v value] [-lD] ]

       iscsiadm -m discovery [-hV] [-d debug_level] [-P printlevel] [.BI -I  iface  -t  type  -p
       ip:port [-l] ] | [ [-p ip:port] [-l|-D] ]

       iscsiadm  -m  node  [-hV]  [-d  debug_level] [-P printlevel] [-L all,manual,automatic] [-U
       all,manual,automatic] [-S] [ [-T targetname -p ip:port -I iface ] [-l|-u|-R|-s]  ]  [  [-o
       operation] [-n name] [-v value] [-p ip:port] ]

       iscsiadm  -m  session  [-hV] [-d debug_level] [-P printlevel] [ -r sessionid|sysfsdir [-R]
       [-u|-s|-o new] ]

       iscsiadm -m iface [-hV] [-d debug_level] [-P printlevel] [ -I ifacename | -H hostno|MAC  ]
       [  [-o  operation] [-n name] [-v value] ] [ -C ping [-a ip] [-b packetsize] [-c count] [-i
       interval] ]

       iscsiadm -m fw [-d debug_level] [-l]

       iscsiadm -m host [-P printlevel] [-H hostno|MAC] [ [ -C chap [-x chap_tbl_idx]  ]  |  [ -C
       flashnode  [-A  portal_type]  [-x  flashnode_idx]  ] | [ -C stats ] ] [ [-o operation] [-n
       name] [-v value] ]

       iscsiadm -k priority

DESCRIPTION

       The iscsiadm utility is a command-line tool allowing discovery and login to iSCSI targets,
       as well as access and management of the open-iscsi database.

       Open-iscsi  does  not  use  the  term  node as defined by the iSCSI RFC, where a node is a
       single iSCSI initiator or target. Open-iscsi uses the term node to refer to a portal on  a
       target.

       For session mode, a session id (sid) is used. The sid of a session can be found by running
       iscsiadm -m session -P 1. The session id and sysfs path are not currently  persistent  and
       is partially determined by when the session is setup.

       Note that many of the node and discovery operations require that the iSCSI daemon (iscsid)
       be running.

OPTIONS

       -a, --ip=ipaddr
              ipaddr can be IPv4 or IPv6.

              This option is only valid for ping submode.

       -A, --portal_type=[ipv4|ipv6]
              Specify the portal type for the new flash node entry to be created.

              This option is only valid for flashnode submode of host  mode  and  only  with  new
              operation.

       -b, --packetsize=packetsize
              Specify the ping packetsize.

              This option is only valid for ping submode.

       -c, --count=count
              count specify number of ping iterations.

              This option is only valid for ping submode.

       -C, --submode=op
              Specify the submode for mode. op must be name of submode.

              Currently iscsiadm support ping as submode for iface. For example,

              iscsiadm -m iface -I ifacename -C ping -a ipaddr -b packetsize -c count -i interval

              For host, it supports chap , flashnode and stats as submodes. For example,

              iscsiadm -m host -H hostno -C chap -x chap_tbl_idx -o operation

              iscsiadm -m host -H hostno -C flashnode -x flashnode_idx -o operation

              iscsiadm -m host -H hostno -C stats

       -d, --debug=debug_level
              print debugging information. Valid values for debug_level are 0 to 8.

       -h, --help
              display help text and exit

       -H, --host=[hostno|MAC]
              The  host  argument specifies the SCSI host to use for the operation. It can be the
              scsi host number assigned to the host by  the  kernel's  scsi  layer,  or  the  MAC
              address of a scsi host.

       -i, --interval=interval
              interval specify delay between two ping iterations.

              This option is only valid for ping submode.

       -I, --interface=[iface]
              The  interface  argument  specifies  the  iSCSI interface to use for the operation.
              iSCSI interfaces (iface) are  defined  in  /etc/iscsi/ifaces.  For  hardware  iSCSI
              (qla4xxx) the iface config must have the hardware address (iface.hwaddress = port's
              MAC address) and the driver/transport_name (iface.transport_name). The iface's name
              is then the filename of the iface config. For software iSCSI, the iface config must
              have  either  the  hardware  address  (iface.hwaddress),  or  the  network  layer's
              interface name (iface.net_ifacename), and it must have the driver/transport_name

              The  available  drivers/iscsi_transports are tcp (software iSCSI over TCP/IP), iser
              (software iSCSI over InfiniBand), or qla4xxx (Qlogic 4XXXX HBAs). The hwaddress  is
              the  MAC  address or for software iSCSI it may be the special value "default" which
              directs the initiator to not bind the session to a specific hardware  resource  and
              instead  allow  the  network  or InfiniBand layer to decide what to do. There is no
              need to create an iface config with the default behavior. If you do not specify  an
              iface, then the default behavior is used.

              As mentioned above there is a special iface name default. There are three others --
              cxgb3i, bnx2i and iser, which does not bind the session to  a  specific  card,  but
              will  bind  the  session  to  the  cxgb3i,  bnx2i  or  iser  transport.  These  are
              experimental and the use is not supported as a stable interface yet.

              In discovery mode multiple interfaces can  be  specified  by  passing  in  multiple
              -I/--interface instances. For example,

              "iscsiadm -m discoverydb -t st -p ip:port -I iface0 -I iface2 --discover"

              Will  direct  iscsiadm  to  setup  the  node db to create records which will create
              sessions through the two intefaces passed in.

              In node mode, only a single interface is supported in each call to iscsiadm.

              This option is valid for discovery, node and iface mode.

       -k, --killiscsid=[priority]
              Currently priority must be zero. This will immediately stop all  iscsid  operations
              and  shutdown  iscsid. It does not logout any sessions. Running this command is the
              same as doing "killall iscsid". Neither should normally be used, because if  iscsid
              is  doing  error  recovery or if there is an error while iscsid is not running, the
              system may not be able to recover.  This command and iscsid's SIGTERM handling  are
              experimental.

       -D, --discover
              Discover  targets  using  the  discovery  record  with  the  recid matching the the
              discovery type and portal passed in. If there is no matching  record,  it  will  be
              created  using  the  iscsid.conf  discovery  settings.   This  must  be  passed  in
              discoverydb mode to instruct iscsiadm to perform discovery.

              This option is only valid for SendTargets discovery mode.

       -l, --login
              For node and fw mode, login to a specified record. For discovery mode, login to all
              discovered targets.

              This option is only valid for discovery and node modes.

       -L, --loginall=[all|manual|automatic]
              For node mode, login all sessions with the node or conn startup values passed in or
              all running session, except ones marked onboot, if all is passed in.

              This option is only valid for node mode (it is valid but not functional for session
              mode).

       -m, --mode op
              specify the mode. op must be one of discovery, discoverydb, node, fw, host iface or
              session.

              If no other options are specified: for discovery,  discoverydb  and  node,  all  of
              their  respective  records  are  displayed;  for  session,  all active sessions and
              connections are displayed; for fw, all boot  firmware  values  are  displayed;  for
              host,  all  iSCSI  hosts  are  displayed;  and  for  iface,  all  ifaces  setup  in
              /etc/iscsi/ifaces are displayed.

       -n, --name=name
              In node mode, specify a field name in a record. In flashnode submode of host  mode,
              specify name of the flash node parameter.

              For use with the update operator.

       -o, --op=op
              Specifies  a  database  operator op. op must be one of new, delete, update, show or
              nonpersistent.

              For iface mode, apply and applyall  are also applicable.

              For flashnode submode of host mode, login and logout are also applicable.

              This option is valid for all modes except fw.  Delete  should  not  be  used  on  a
              running  session.  If  it  is  iscsiadm  will  stop the session and then delete the
              record.

              new creates a new database record for a given object. In node mode,  the  recid  is
              the  target  name and portal (IP:port). In iface mode, the recid is the iface name.
              In discovery mode, the recid is the portal and discovery type.

              In session mode, the new operation logs in  a  new  session  using  the  same  node
              database and iface information as the specified session.

              In  discovery mode, if the recid and new operation is passed in, but the --discover
              argument is not, then iscsiadm will only create a discovery  record  (it  will  not
              perform  discovery).  If  the  --discover argument is passed in with the portal and
              discovery type, then iscsiadm will create the discovery record if  needed,  and  it
              will  create records for portals returned by the target that do not yet have a node
              DB record.

              delete deletes a specified recid. In discovery  mode,  if  iscsiadm  is  performing
              discovery it will delete records for portals that are no longer returned.

              update  will  update the recid with name to the specified value. In discovery mode,
              if iscsiadm is performing discovery the recid, name  and value  arguments  are  not
              needed.  The  update  operation will operate on the portals returned by the target,
              and will update the node records with info from the config file and command line.

              show is the default behaviour for node, discovery and iface mode. It is  also  used
              when there are no commands passed into session mode and a running sid is passed in.
              name and value are currently ignored when used with show.

              nonpersistent instructs iscsiadm to not manipulate the node DB.

              apply will cause the network settings to take effect on the specified iface.

              applyall will cause the network settings to take effect on all the ifaces whose MAC
              address or host number matches that of the specific host.

              login will log into the specified flash node entry.

              logout does the logout from the given flash node entry.

       -p, --portal=ip[:port]
              Use target portal with ip-address ip and port. If port is not passed in the default
              port value is 3260.

              IPv6 addresses can be specified as [ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd]:port or ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd.

              Hostnames can also be used for the ip argument.

              This option is only valid for discovery,  or  for  node  operations  with  the  new
              operator.

              This  should  be  used  along with --target in node mode, to specify what the open-
              iscsi docs refer to as a node or node record. Note: open-iscsi's use  of  the  word
              node, does not match the iSCSI RFC's iSCSI Node term.

       -P,  --print=printlevel
              If  in  node  mode print nodes in tree format. If in session mode print sessions in
              tree format. If in discovery mode print the nodes in tree format.

       -T, --targetname=targetname
              Use target targetname.

              This should be used along with --portal in node mode, to  specify  what  the  open-
              iscsi  docs  refer  to as a node or node record. Note: open-iscsi's use of the word
              node, does not match the iSCSI RFC's iSCSI Node term.

       -r,  --sid=sid | sysfsdir
              Use session ID sid. The sid of a session can be  found  from  running  iscsiadm  in
              session mode with the --info argument.

              Instead  of sid, a sysfs path containing the session can be used. For example using
              one  of  the  following:  /sys/devices/platform/hostH/sessionS/targetH:B:I/H:B:I:L,
              /sys/devices/platform/hostH/sessionS/targetH:B:I,                                or
              /sys/devices/platform/hostH/sessionS, for the sysfsdir argument would result in the
              session with sid S to be used.

              sid | sysfsdir is only required for session mode.

       -R,  --rescan
              In  session  mode,  if sid is also passed in rescan the session. If no sid has been
              passed in  rescan all running sessions.

              In node mode, rescan a session running through  the  target,  portal,  iface  tuple
              passed in.

       -s, --stats
              Display  session  statistics.   This option when used with host mode, displays host
              statistics.

       -S, --show
              When displaying records, do not  hide  masked  values,  such  as  the  CHAP  secret
              (password).

              This option is only valid for node and session mode.

       -t, --type=type
              type  must  be  sendtargets (or abbreviated as st), slp, isns or fw. Currently only
              sendtargets, fw, and iSNS is supported, see the DISCOVERY TYPES section.

              This option is only valid for discovery mode.

       -u, --logout
              logout for a specified record.

              This option is only valid for node and session mode.

       -U, --logoutall=[all,manual,automatic]
              logout all sessions with the node or conn startup values passed in or  all  running
              session, except ones marked onboot, if all is passed in.

              This option is only valid for node mode (it is valid but not functional for session
              mode).

       -v, --value=value
              Specify a value for use with the update operator.

              This option is only valid for node mode and flashnode submode of host mode.

       -V, --version
              display version and exit

       -x, --index=index
              Specify the index of the entity to operate on.

              This option is only valid for chap and flashnode submodes of host mode.

DISCOVERY TYPES

       iSCSI defines 3 discovery types: SendTargets, SLP, and iSNS.

       SendTargets
              A native iSCSI protocol which allows each iSCSI target to send a list of  available
              targets to the initiator.

       SLP    Optionally  an iSCSI target can use the Service Location Protocol (SLP) to announce
              the available targets. The initiator can either implement SLP queries  directly  or
              can use a separate tool to acquire the information about available targets.

       iSNS   iSNS  (Internet  Storage  Name  Service)  records information about storage volumes
              within a larger network. To utilize iSNS, pass the address and optionally the  port
              of the iSNS server to do discovery to.

       fw     Several NICs and systems contain a mini iSCSI initiator which can be used for boot.
              To get the values used for boot the fw option can be  used.   Doing  fw  discovery,
              does  not  store persistent records in the node or discovery DB, because the values
              are stored in the system's or NIC's resource.

              Performing fw discovery will print the portals, like with other discovery  methods.
              To  see  other  settings like CHAP values and initiator settings, like you would in
              node mode, run "iscsiadm -m fw".

              fw support in open-iscsi is experimental. The  settings  and  iscsiadm  syntax  and
              output format may change.

       iscsiadm   supports   the   iSNS  (isns)  or  SendTargets  (st)  discovery  type.  An  SLP
       implementation is under development.

EXIT STATUS

       On success 0 is returned. On error one of the return codes below will be returned.

       Commands that operate on multiple objects (sessions,  records,  etc),  iscsiadm/iscsistart
       will  return  the  first  error  that is encountered.  iscsiadm/iscsistart will attempt to
       execute  the  operation   on   the   objects   it   can.   If   no   objects   are   found
       ISCSI_ERR_NO_OBJS_FOUND is returned.

       0      ISCSI_SUCCESS - command executed successfully.

       1      ISCSI_ERR - generic error code.

       2      ISCSI_ERR_SESS_NOT_FOUND - session could not be found.

       3      ISCSI_ERR_NOMEM - could not allocate resource for operation.

       4      ISCSI_ERR_TRANS - connect problem caused operation to fail.

       5      ISCSI_ERR_LOGIN - generic iSCSI login failure.

       6      ISCSI_ERR_IDBM - error accessing/managing iSCSI DB.

       7      ISCSI_ERR_INVAL - invalid argument.

       8      ISCSI_ERR_TRANS_TIMEOUT - connection timer exired while trying to connect.

       9      ISCSI_ERR_INTERNAL - generic internal iscsid/kernel failure.

       10     ISCSI_ERR_LOGOUT - iSCSI logout failed.

       11     ISCSI_ERR_PDU_TIMEOUT - iSCSI PDU timedout.

       12     ISCSI_ERR_TRANS_NOT_FOUND - iSCSI transport module not loaded in kernel or iscsid.

       13     ISCSI_ERR_ACCESS  -  did not have proper OS permissions to access iscsid or execute
              iscsiadm command.

       14     ISCSI_ERR_TRANS_CAPS - transport module did not support operation.

       15     ISCSI_ERR_SESS_EXISTS - session is logged in.

       16     ISCSI_ERR_INVALID_MGMT_REQ - invalid IPC MGMT request.

       17     ISCSI_ERR_ISNS_UNAVAILABLE - iSNS service is not supported.

       18     ISCSI_ERR_ISCSID_COMM_ERR - a read/write to iscsid failed.

       19     ISCSI_ERR_FATAL_LOGIN - fatal iSCSI login error.

       20     ISCSI_ERR_ISCSID_NOTCONN - could not connect to iscsid.

       21     ISCSI_ERR_NO_OBJS_FOUND -  no  records/targets/sessions/portals  found  to  execute
              operation on.

       22     ISCSI_ERR_SYSFS_LOOKUP - could not lookup object in sysfs.

       23     ISCSI_ERR_HOST_NOT_FOUND - could not lookup host.

       24     ISCSI_ERR_LOGIN_AUTH_FAILED - login failed due to authorization failure.

       25     ISCSI_ERR_ISNS_QUERY - iSNS query failure.

       26     ISCSI_ERR_ISNS_REG_FAILED - iSNS registration/deregistration failed.

EXAMPLES

       Discover targets at a given IP address:

            iscsiadm --mode discoverydb --type sendtargets --portal 192.168.1.10 --discover

       Login, must use a node record id found by the discovery:

            iscsiadm --mode node --targetname iqn.2001-05.com.doe:test --portal 192.168.1.1:3260 --login

       Logout:

            iscsiadm --mode node --targetname iqn.2001-05.com.doe:test --portal 192.168.1.1:3260 --logout

       List node records:

            iscsiadm --mode node

       Display all data for a given node record:

            iscsiadm --mode node --targetname iqn.2001-05.com.doe:test --portal 192.168.1.1:3260

FILES

       /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf
              The configuration file read by iscsid and iscsiadm on startup.

       /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi
              The  file  containing the iSCSI InitiatorName and InitiatorAlias read by iscsid and
              iscsiadm on startup.

       /etc/iscsi/nodes/
              This directory contains the nodes with their targets.

       /etc/iscsi/send_targets
              This directory contains the portals.

SEE ALSO

       iscsid(8)

AUTHORS

       Open-iSCSI project <http://www.open-iscsi.com/>
       Alex Aizman <itn780@yahoo.com>
       Dmitry Yusupov <dmitry_yus@yahoo.com>

                                             Sep 2006                                 ISCSIADM(8)