Re: [OSR-devel] Setting the iSCSI Initiatorname

[Michael P. <MP...@Ac...>]

Hi Marc,

the patch is attached.

Br,
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Grimme [mailto:gr...@at...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:54 AM
> To: ope...@li...
> Cc: Michael Peus
> Subject: Re: [OSR-devel] Setting the iSCSI Initiatorname
> 
> Hi Gordan, Michael,
> 
> @Michael: could you please sent this patch as attachement?
> 
> for me this looks like a general problem that could be not 
> only related to the lefthand storage. 
> 
> Although I didn't have problems using iscsi at least this 
> patch makes life with iscsi more configurable.
> 
> Besides as the iscsi-url we are using is and was never 
> conforming to any standard I'll go with this and push it 
> upstream. And it does no look like it would influence the 
> standard behaviour in any way.
> 
> Regards and Thanks
> Marc.
> On Monday 27 July 2009 19:54:09 Michael Peus wrote:
> > Hi Gordan,
> >
> > it's the target that causes problems not the initiator. I have also 
> > checked against an OpenFiler based target without problems 
> using the 
> > same Intitatorname on every Clusternode. Nevertheless, 
> using different 
> > Initiatornames feels "more right" to me. Perhaps the iSCSI 
> Spec. helps 
> > here? I don't know.
> >
> > Br,
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Gordan Bobic [mailto:go...@bo...]
> > Gesendet: Mo 27.07.2009 17:23
> > An: ope...@li...
> > Betreff: Re: [OSR-devel] Setting the iSCSI Initiatorname
> >
> > Is this something specific to the HP SAN iSCSI initiator software 
> > trying to be too smart by half in checking initiators? I don't 
> > remember having any problems connecting to iSCSI shares with the 
> > shared config between all nodes on RHEL5 using the distro 
> supplied iSCSI tools.
> >
> > Gordan
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:42:16 +0200, "Michael Peus, DE" 
> > <MP...@Ac...>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > during testing of OSR in an iSCSI setup, the iSCSI-Target (HP 
> > > Lefthand) has problems caused by using the same Initiatorname on 
> > > every node.
> > > Here is a patch that uses an extended rootsource syntax 
> for setting 
> > > an node-specific Initiatorname.
> > > The syntax used is: <rootsource
> > > name="iscsi://<target-ip>:<port>/<Initiatorname>"/>
> > >
> > > Currently this could be CentOS/RHEL specific as the file 
> > > /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi is written.
> > > The patch is against the beta repo.
> > >
> > > I hope this could be usefull for someone else.
> > >
> > > Br,
> > > Michael
> > >
> > > --- iscsi-lib.sh-orig   2009-07-22 12:15:15.000000000 +0200
> > > +++ iscsi-lib.sh        2009-07-22 12:15:01.000000000 +0200
> > > @@ -34,6 +34,25 @@
> > >  iscsiparser1="iscsi://([^:/]+)"
> > >  iscsiparser2="iscsi://([^:]+):([[:digit:]]+)/"
> > >  iscsiparser3="^iscsi"
> > > +iscsiparser4="iscsi://([^:]+):([[:digit:]]+)/(.+)"
> > > +
> > > +
> > > +#****f* iscsi-lib.sh/getISCSIInitiatorFromParam
> > > +#  NAME
> > > +#    getISCSIInitiatorFromParam
> > > +#  SYNOPSIS
> > > +#    function getISCSIInitiatorServerFromParam {
> > > +#  MODIFICATION HISTORY
> > > +#  IDEAS
> > > +#  SOURCE
> > > +#
> > > +function getISCSIInitiatorFromParam {
> > > +    echo $1 | awk '
> > > +{
> > > +   match($1, "'$iscsiparser4'", iscsiparms);
> > > +   print iscsiparms[3];
> > > +}'
> > > +}
> > >
> > >  #****f* iscsi-lib.sh/getISCSIServerFromParam
> > >  #  NAME
> > > @@ -133,7 +152,13 @@
> > >         local nodename=$2
> > >         local iscsiserver=$(getISCSIServerFromParam $rootsource)
> > >         local iscsimodules="iscsi_tcp"
> > > +       local iscsiinitiatorname=$(getISCSIInitiatorFromParam
> > > $rootsource)
> > >         echo_local -n "Starting iscsid"
> > > +
> > > +       if [ -n "$iscsiinitiatorname" ]; then
> > > +               echo "InitiatorName=$iscsiinitiatorname"
> > >
> > >>/etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi
> > >
> > > +               echo_local -n "Initiatorname is 
> $iscsiinitiatorname"
> > > +       fi
> > >      modprobe -q iscsi_tcp
> > >      modprobe -q ib_iser
> > >      exec_local iscsid
> > >
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> >
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