community.general.open_iscsi – Manage iSCSI targets with Open-iSCSI

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.open_iscsi.

Synopsis

• Discover targets on given portal, (dis)connect targets, mark targets to manually or auto start, return device nodes of connected targets.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• open_iscsi library and tools (iscsiadm)

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
auto_node_startup boolean	Choices: no yes	Whether the target node should be automatically connected at startup. aliases: automatic
discover boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Whether the list of target nodes on the portal should be (re)discovered and added to the persistent iSCSI database. Keep in mind that iscsiadm discovery resets configuration, like node.startup to manual, hence combined with auto_node_startup=yes will always return a changed state.
login boolean	Choices: no yes	Whether the target node should be connected. aliases: state
node_auth string	Default: "CHAP"	The value for discovery.sendtargets.auth.authmethod.
node_pass string		The value for discovery.sendtargets.auth.password.
node_user string		The value for discovery.sendtargets.auth.username.
port string	Default: 3260	The port on which the iSCSI target process listens.
portal string		The domain name or IP address of the iSCSI target. aliases: ip
show_nodes boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Whether the list of nodes in the persistent iSCSI database should be returned by the module.
target string		The iSCSI target name. aliases: name, targetname

Examples

- name: Perform a discovery on sun.com and show available target nodes
  community.general.open_iscsi:
    show_nodes: yes
    discover: yes
    portal: sun.com

- name: Perform a discovery on 10.1.2.3 and show available target nodes
  community.general.open_iscsi:
    show_nodes: yes
    discover: yes
    ip: 10.1.2.3

# NOTE: Only works if exactly one target is exported to the initiator
- name: Discover targets on portal and login to the one available
  community.general.open_iscsi:
    portal: '{{ iscsi_target }}'
    login: yes
    discover: yes

- name: Connect to the named target, after updating the local persistent database (cache)
  community.general.open_iscsi:
    login: yes
    target: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:f8c1f9e0-c3ec-ec84-c9c9-8bfb0cd5de3d

- name: Disconnect from the cached named target
  community.general.open_iscsi:
    login: no
    target: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:f8c1f9e0-c3ec-ec84-c9c9-8bfb0cd5de3d

Authors

• Serge van Ginderachter (@srvg)