ISCSISTART(8)

💖 ISCSISTART(8) 💖

Okay bestie, let's talk about iscsistart 🧚, the iSCSI boot tool from the Linux Administrator's Manual 💅. It's the manual-page-world's way of saying "iscsistart - iSCSI boot tool" ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

iscsistart [OPTION]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So iscsistart can start a session using whatever settings you pass in, or using the iBFT or Open Firmware [OF] boot information 🔥. Its main job is starting sessions for iSCSI root boot 🌈.

🚨 Heads up: this program is NOT meant to manage sessions. Don't try to run your whole iSCSI life through it 🙈

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• [-c|--config=]config-file — Read the configuration from config-file instead of the default /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf file 📂
• [-i|--initiatorname=]name — Set InitiatorName to name. This one is required if you're not using iBFT or OF 💜
• [-t|--targetname=]name — Set TargetName to name. Also required if you're not using iBFT or OF 💜
• [-g|--tgpt=]N — Set the target portal group tag to N. Required if you're not using iBFT or OF 🫶
• [-a|--address=]A.B.C.D — Set the IP address to A.B.C.D. Yep, required if you're not using iBFT or OF 🔥
• [-p|--port=]N — Set the port to N. Optional, and it defaults to 3260 🍓
• [-u|--username=]N — Set the username to N. Optional ✨
• [-w|--password=]N — Set the password to N. Optional 🔐
• [-U|-username_in=]N — Set the incoming username to N. Optional 🌸
• [-W|--password_in=]N — Set the incoming password to N. Optional 🌸
• [-d|--debug=]debug_level — Print debugging info at the level you choose 🙈
• [-b|--fwparam_connect] — Create a session to the target using the iBFT or OF info. Main character energy 👑
• [-N|--fwparam_network] — Bring up the network as specified by iBFT or OF 🌐
• [-f|--fwparam_print] — Print the iBFT or OF info to STDOUT 🖨️
• [-P|--param=]NAME=VALUE — Set the parameter named NAME to VALUE. NAME is one of the settings in the node record or iscsid.conf. You can pass in multiple params, so go wild 🦄
• [-h|--help] — Display the help and exit 💅
• [-v|--version] — Display the version and exit ✨

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

iscsiadm(8) is the one to check out next, iykyk 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Open-iSCSI project, over at http://www.open-iscsi.com/ 🌈

Mike Christie, mchristi@redhat.com 💜

Okay that's the whole tea ☕💖 This page is from Jan 2010 and it's ISCSISTART(8) forever and ever 🎀😭