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

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 7.5.2).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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.

Aliases: system.open_iscsi

Requirements

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

  • open_iscsi library and tools (iscsiadm)

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

auto_node_startup

aliases: automatic

boolean

Whether the target node should be automatically connected at startup.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

auto_portal_startup

boolean

added in community.general 3.2.0

Whether the target node portal should be automatically connected at startup.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

discover

boolean

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=true will always return a changed state.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

login

aliases: state

boolean

Whether the target node should be connected.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

node_auth

string

The value for node.session.auth.authmethod.

Default: "CHAP"

node_pass

string

The value for node.session.auth.password.

node_pass_in

string

added in community.general 3.8.0

The value for node.session.auth.password_in.

node_user

string

The value for node.session.auth.username.

node_user_in

string

added in community.general 3.8.0

The value for node.session.auth.username_in.

port

string

The port on which the iSCSI target process listens.

Default: "3260"

portal

aliases: ip

string

The domain name or IP address of the iSCSI target.

rescan

boolean

added in community.general 4.1.0

Rescan an established session for discovering new targets.

When target is omitted, will rescan all sessions.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

show_nodes

boolean

Whether the list of nodes in the persistent iSCSI database should be returned by the module.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

target

aliases: name, targetname

string

The iSCSI target name.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

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

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

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

- name: Disconnect from the cached named target
  community.general.open_iscsi:
    login: false
    target: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:f8c1f9e0-c3ec-ec84-c9c9-8bfb0cd5de3d

- name: Override and disable automatic portal login on specific portal
  community.general.open_iscsi:
    login: false
    portal: 10.1.1.250
    auto_portal_startup: false
    target: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:f8c1f9e0-c3ec-ec84-c9c9-8bfb0cd5de3d

- name: Rescan one or all established sessions to discover new targets (omit target for all sessions)
  community.general.open_iscsi:
    rescan: true
    target: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:f8c1f9e0-c3ec-ec84-c9c9-8bfb0cd5de3d

Authors

  • Serge van Ginderachter (@srvg)