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ISCSIADM(8)                        Linux Administrator's Manual                       ISCSIADM(8)

NAME
       iscsiadm - open-iscsi administration utility

SYNOPSIS
       iscsiadm   -m   discoverydb   [-hV]   [-d   debug_level]   [-P   printlevel]   [-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] [-I iface] [-t type] [-p
       ip:port] [-l]

       iscsiadm -m node [-hV] [-d debug_level] [-P printlevel]  [-L  all,manual,automatic,onboot]
       [-W]   [-U   all,manual,automatic,onboot]   [-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 in-
       terval] ]

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

       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  sin-
       gle  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 op-
              eration.

       -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 ad-
              dress 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 inter-
              face 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), qla4xxx (Qlogic 4XXXX and 82XXX HBAs), cxgb3i and
              cxgb4i (Chelsio T3  and  T4  adapters),  bnx2i  (QLogic  Netextreme  II  adapters),
              be2iscsi  (Emulex  10G  adapter),  qedi  (QLogic QEDI 25/40/100Gb adapter), and ocs
              (Emulex One Connect storage).  Some of these are considered experimental,  as  they
              are not fully tested.

              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 others which do
              not bind the session to a specific card, but instead bind the session to the trans-
              port: iser, cxgb3i, cxgb4i, and bnx2i.

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

              sh# 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  ses-
              sions 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  sys-
              tem may not be able to recover.  This command and iscsid's SIGTERM handling are ex-
              perimental.

       -D, --discover
              Discover targets using the discovery record with the  recid matching the  the  dis-
              covery  type  and portal passed in. If there is no matching record, it will be cre-
              ated 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|onboot]
              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).

       -W, ---no_wait
              In node, discovery, or firmware mode, do not wait for a response from the  targets.
              This  means  that success will be returned if the command is able to send the login
              requests, whether or not they succeed. In this case, it will be up to the caller to
              poll for success (i.e. session creation).

       -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 con-
              nections 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  run-
              ning 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 data-
              base 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 dis-
              covery 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 opera-
              tor.

              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 ses-
              sion 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/plat-
              form/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 (pass-
              word).

              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|onboot]
              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.

       A  special  discovery  type  called  fw (for firmware) is also supported, for discoverying
       firmware interfaces, and populating the interface database in the process.

       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     Firmware  mode.   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, be-
              cause 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.

       Note that the SLP implementation is under development and currently is not supported.

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 exe-
       cute 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  op-
              eration 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.

       27     ISCSI_ERR_OP_NOT_SUPP - operation not support

       28     ISCSI_ERR_BUSY - device or resource in use

       29     ISCSI_ERR_AGAIN - operation failed, but retrying later may succeed

       30     ISCSI_ERR_UNKNOWN_DISCOVERY_TYPE - unknown discovery type

       31     ISCSI_ERR_CHILD_TERMINATED - child process terminated

       32     ISCSI_ERR_SESSION_NOT_CONNECTED - session likely not connected

EXAMPLES
       Discover targets at a given IP address:

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

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

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

       Logout:

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

       List node records:

              sh# iscsiadm --mode node

       Display all data for a given node record:

              sh#   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 AT yahoo.com>
       Dmitry Yusupov <dmitry_yus AT yahoo.com>

                                             Nov 2020                                 ISCSIADM(8)

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