iscsi_discovery(8)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay bestie, this is iscsi_discovery(8) from the System Manager's Manual 💅 It's the tool that discovers iSCSI targets ✨

🔮 SYNOPSIS 🔮

iscsi_discovery <IP> [-p <port>] [-d] [ -t <tcp|iser> [-f] ] [-m] [-l]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically, this tool does send-targets discovery to the IP you give it 🦋 If that makes a discovery record, it tries to log in to the portal using your preferred transport. The -t flag is how you pick the transport type, and TCP is the default 🌸 If the login works on a transport, it marks the portal for automatic login (unless you use -m), and then it disconnects (unless you use -l) 🫶

Quick vibe check ⚠️ For iSCSI discovery to work, the open-iscsi services have to be running. That means iscsid should be up and the iSCSI modules should be loaded 🧚 The best way to get that set up is the init.d startup script, periodt 💅

Now let's talk options, because these are the good part ✨

• [-p=]port-number — sets the port number. The default is 3260 🍓
• [-d] — prints debugging info 🙈
• [-t=]transport-type — sets the transport. The default is tcp 🌈
• [-f] — forces a specific transport, which disables the fallback to tcp. Fallback is enabled by default, so this is you saying "no, I want this transport and nothing else" 👑 It forces whatever transport you gave to the -t flag.
• [-m] — manual startup. This sets manual startup, and the default is automatic startup 🫶
• [-l] — login. It logs in to the newly discovered nodes. The default is false, so you have to ask for it 🔥

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Written by Dan Bar Dov 💜

🦋 REPORTING BUGS 🦋

If something's broken, report it to <erezzi.list@gmail.com> 😭

🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

Copyright © Voltaire Ltd. 2006.

Okay that's the whole tea ☕ Go be a main character with iscsi_discovery(8) and stay iconic, bestie 💖✨