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The next menu configures the access restrictions of the target. The configuration is very similar to
the configuration of the discovery authentication. In this case, at least an incoming authentication
should be setup.
Next finishes the configuration of the new target, and brings you back to the overview page of the
Target tab. Activate your changes by clicking Finish.

13.2.3 Configuring an iSCSI Target Manually

Configure an iSCSI target in
declaration are global for the file. Authentication information in this portion has a special
meaning—it is not global, but is used for the discovery of the iSCSI target.
If you have access to an iSNS server, you should first configure the file to tell the target about this
server. The address of the iSNS server must always be given as an IP address. You cannot specify
the DNS name for the server. The configuration for this functionality looks like the following:
iSNSServer 192.168.1.111
iSNSAccessControl no
This configuration makes the iSCSI target register itself with the
the discovery for initiators. For more about iSNS, see
The access control for the iSNS discovery is not supported. Just keep
All direct iSCSI authentication can be done in two directions. The iSCSI target can require the iSCSI
initiator to authenticate with the
initiator can also require the iSCSI target to authenticate. Use
same syntax:
IncomingUser <username> <password>
OutgoingUser <username> <password>
The authentication is followed by one or more target definitions. For each target, add a
section. This section always starts with a
numbers:
Target iqn.yyyy-mm.<reversed domain name>[:identifier]
In the
Target
selectable. Find more about naming conventions in
Three different block devices are exported in this example. The first block device is a logical volume
(see also Chapter 4, "LVM Configuration," on page
is an image available in the local file system. All these look like block devices to an iSCSI initiator.
Before activating the iSCSI target, add at least one
the authentication for the use of this target.
To activate all your changes, restart the iscsitarget daemon with
your configuration in the
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/etc/ietd.conf
IncomingUser
Lun 0 Path=/dev/mapper/system-v3
Lun 1 Path=/dev/hda4
Lun 2 Path=/var/lib/xen/images/xen-1,Type=fileio
line, is the date when this target is activated, and
yyyy-mm
file system:
/proc
. All parameters in this file before the first Target
iSNS
Chapter 12, "iSNS for Linux," on page
, which can be added multiple times. The iSCSI
OutgoingUser
identifier followed, by definitions of logical unit
Target
RFC 3722 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3722.txt).
27), the second is an IDE partition, and the third
IncomingUser
rcopen-iscsi restart
server, which in turn provides
iSNSAccessControl no
for this. Both have the
Target
is freely
identifier
after the definitions. It does
Lun
. Check
109.
.