Installing the targetd service and targetcli tools
To manage the kernel-based iSCSI Target service on RHEL 7, we will need to install the targetd
and targetcli
package, as shown in the following command:
$ sudo yum install targetd targetcli
From the output, we can see that additional packages are installed; however, it's more interesting to see how Python is used as a major tool to manage iSCSI. The following screenshot is an extract from the command line output:
Although the iSCSI target runs as part of the kernel, the targetd
package provides a service. This service is used to load the iSCSI target configuration. This is all that targetd
does, so we never need to start this service as such; just ensure that
targetd
is enabled for autostart, as shown in the following command:
$ sudo systemctl enable targetd
Tip
Once the system startup enables the targetd
service, it ensures that the targetcli restoreconfig
command is executed. It also ensures that the current configuration is loaded...