ISCSI Initiator not starting

[marficadmin]

Hi All,

Im trying to start the ISCSI initiator service on my RHEL server but its giving the following error:

[root@nfsserver ~]# /etc/init.d/iscsi start
Checking iscsi config: [FAILED]

1. I have downloaded the ISCSI host kit from the now site and installed it on the Linux server.

2. /etc/iscsi.conf and /etc/initiator.iscsi file have been update correctly.

3. everything from teh storage side is setup fine.

Trying to reload gives the following error:

[root@nfsserver ~]# /etc/init.d/iscsi reload
###############################################################################
iSCSI driver is not loaded
###############################################################################

Host details are:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 7)

Please let me know if i need to do anything to get the ISCSI initiator services started.

Regards,

Vijay

[BrendonHiggins]

I am not great on Unix but on windows I would confirm that the server NIC can ping the filer. Once this is good I would start with the iSCSI. Are you running iSCSI out of its own NIC on the server?

[marficadmin]

We are able to ping the filer from the host and we are not using any dedicted NIC for ISCSI traffic, the ISCSI traffic is routed on the corporate LAN only.

Regards,

Vijay

[marficadmin]

running the chkconfig command for teh ISCSI services i get the following output, do anyone have any idea on this?

[root@nfsserver ~]# chkconfig --list iscsi
iscsi 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

Regards,

Vijay

[BrendonHiggins]

Googled and found this

http://people.redhat.com/mchristi/iscsi/RHEL4/doc/readme

Getting a bit beyond me now. Good luck.

[BrendonHiggins]

The SAN Admin Basic course notes say

chkconfig iscsi on

~This enables the iSCSI service

chkconfig -list iscsi

~This command will verify the staus of the iSCSI service.

Hope it helps. Or try logging this issue again on the support side of the forum.

[marficadmin]

Hi Brendon,

Thanks for the help, reinstalling the ISCSI RPM on the linux host worked; in fact after reinstalling the RPM a new /etc/iscsi.conf.rpmnew is created and we need to make sure that we edit the correct conf file to add the ISCSI targets.

Regards,

Vijay

[BrendonHiggins]

So is it all working now?

[marficadmin]

Yup, its working good now.

Regards,

Vijay

[BrendonHiggins]

That great. Glade I could help. There should be a "Mark question as answered" button. To close this thread as complete.