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ISCONTROL(8) BSD System Manager's Manual ISCONTROL(8) NAME iscontrol -- login/negotiator/control for an iSCSI initiator session SYNOPSIS iscontrol [-vd] [[-file] [-n nickname]] [-t target] [variable=value] DESCRIPTION Internet SCSI (iSCSI) is a network protocol standard, that allows the use of the SCSI protocol over TCP/IP networks, the iscontrol program is the userland side of an iSCSI session, see iscsi_initiator(4). It has 2 modes of operation, if -d (discovery session) is specified, it will print out the target names returned by the target and exit. In the second mode, it will, after a successful login/negotiation, run in daemon mode, monitoring the connection, and will try to reconnect in case of a net- work/target failure. It will terminate/logout the session when a SIGHUP signal is received. The flags are as follows: -v verbose mode. -d do a discovery session and exit. -c file a file containing configuration key-options, see iscsi.conf(5) -n nickname if -c file is specified, then search for the block named nickname in that file, see iscsi.conf(5) -t target is the target's IP address or name variable=value see iscsi.conf(5) for the complete list of variables/op- tions and their possible values. EXAMPLES iscontrol -dt myiscsitarget will start a discovery session with the target and print to stdout the list of available targetnames/targetadresses. Note: this listing does not necessarily mean availability, since depending on the target configu- ration, a discovery session might not need login/access permission, but a full session certainly does. iscontrol -c /etc/iscsi.conf -n myiscsi will read options from /etc/iscsi.conf, use the targetaddress found in the block nicknamed myiscsi, login and negotiate whatever options are specified, and start an iscsi-session. SEE ALSO da(4), iscsi_initiator(4), sa(4), iscsi.conf(5), camcontrol(8) STANDARDS RFC 3720 BUGS iscontrol should probably load the iscsi_initiator module if needed. Not all functions/specifications have been implemented yet, noticeably missing are the Task Management Functions. The error recovery, though not fully compliant does a brave effort to recover from network discon- nects. BSD February 22, 2007 BSD
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