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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide
OL-5183-02, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 1.3
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting IP Storage Issues
Troubleshooting iSCSI Issues
Troubleshooting iSCSI Issues
There are several types of issues you can experience with iSCSI, including the following:
• Troubleshooting iSCSI Authentication, page 5-31
• Configuring Authentication, page 5-32
• Troubleshooting Username/Password Configuration, page 5-33
• Troubleshooting Radius Configuration, page 5-33
• Troubleshooting Radius Routing Configuration, page 5-36
• Troubleshooting Dynamic iSCSI Configuration, page 5-36
Troubleshooting iSCSI Authentication
iSCSI user login authentication is required with the Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch. There are two ways
of the getting iSCSI users authenticated: either locally configured the in the switch’s configuration file,
or using the Radius server database.
Figure 5-11 shows a successful iSCSI login for the Windows 2000 driver.
Figure 5-11 Sucessful iSCSI Login Status Window
On Solaris systems, a successful login is found in the /var/adm/messages directory, and should look
similar to the following example:
Mar 14 12:53:23 ca-sun1 iscsid[12745]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] discovery process for
172.22.91.223 finished, exiting
Mar 14 12:58:45 ca-sun1 iscsid[12802]: [ID 448557 daemon.notice] logged into
DiscoveryAddress 172.22.91.223:3260 isid 023d0040
Mar 14 12:58:45 ca-sun1 iscsid[12802]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] iSCSI target 2 =
iqn.com.domainname.vrrp-11.gw.21000020375aff77 at0
Mar 14 12:58:45 ca-sun1 iscsid[12809]: [ID 529321 daemon.notice] logged into target
iqn.com.domainname.vrrp-11.gw.21000020375aff77 7
Mar 14 12:58:45 ca-sun1 iscsid[12802]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] iSCSI target 3 =
iqn.com.domainname.vrrp-11.gw.21000020374baf02 at0
Mar 14 12:58:45 ca-sun1 iscsid[12810]: [ID 529321 daemon.notice] logged into target
iqn.com.domainname.vrrp-11.gw.21000020374baf02 7