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Chapter 5. Software/Driver Configuration and Fine-tuning
The mandatory and optional parameters are the key=value pair(s) defined in RFC3720, or the
var=const pair(s) defined for Chelsio iSCSI driver implementation. In this document, the
key=value is referred to as "pair", and var=const is referred to as "parameter" to clarify between
iSCSI protocol‟s pair value(s), and Chelsio iSCSI driver‟s parameter value(s). Note that all
value and const are case sensitive.
5.9.2. chisns
chisns
is the command line tool for controlling the iSNS client. This is a simple tool that starts
the iSNS client with a client and server parameter.
5.9.3. iscsictl options
Mandatory
Options
Parameters
-h
-v
-f <[path/]
filename>
-k <key>[=<val>]
-c target=<name>
[,name2
.
.
.
,<nameN>]
Chelsio T5 iSCSI PDU Offload Target with SCST support for Linux
Optional
Parameters
Display the help messages.
Display the version.
Specifies a pre-written iSCSI configuration text
file, used to start, update, save, or reload the
iSCSI
This option must be specified with one of the
following other options: "-S" or "-W". For the
"-S" option "-f" must be specified first. All other
options
If the "-f" option is not specified with the
commands above the default configuration file
will be used. It‟s name and location is:
/etc/chelsio-iscsi/chiscsi.conf
The configuration file path and filename must
conform
For the format of the iSCSI configuration file,
please see "Format of The iSCSI Configuration
File" section earlier in this document.
Specifies an iSCSI Entity or Chelsio Entity
parameter.
This option can be specified after "-c" option to
retrieve a parameter setting..
Display the Chelsio iSCSI target configuration.
target=<name> parameter:
Where name is the name of the node whose
information will be returned. name can be
one or
comma,
<name1[,name2,...,nameN] | ALL>
A name of ALL returns information on all
targets. ALL is a reserved string that must be
uppercase.
Example:
Description
will ignore this "-f"
to Linux
more string of names, separated by a
node(s).
option.
standards.
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