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Testing

Testing target-isns with Open-iSNS

The easiest way to test target-isns is to install Open-iSNS on the same machine.

On a first terminal, start the iSNS daemon in foreground and enable all debugging facilities:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/isnsd --foreground --debug all

Then, on a second terminal, start the iSNS client also in foreground and set the IP address of the iSNS server to localhost:

$ ./src/target-isns --isns-server 127.0.0.1 --debug
0.000000 I: target-isns version 0.6.3 started
0.000036 I: iSNS server is 127.0.0.1:3205

The iSNS client should register your iSCSI targets to the iSNS server and keep them registered (i.e. refreshing their registration before the registration period expires). If you hit Ctrl + C, target-isns deregisters the iSCSI targets and exits.

Testing with fake iSCSI configurations

By default, target-isns works by watching the iSCSI configfs directory that contains the configuration of the Linux kernel target's subsystem (also known as LIO). This configuration is visible under /sys/kernel/config/target/iscsi.

For testing purposes, you can create a fake configfs hierarchy that look the same and ask target-isns to browse it. Below is a minimal fake configfs hierarchy that allows to register a single iSCSI target containing a single target portal group:

$ mkdir -p fake-iscsi-path/iqn.2018-01.org.example:disk1
$ mkdir -p fake-iscsi-path/iqn.2018-01.org.example:disk1/tpgt_1
$ mkdir -p fake-iscsi-path/iqn.2018-01.org.example:disk1/tpgt_1/np
$ mkdir -p fake-iscsi-path/iqn.2018-01.org.example:disk1/tpgt_1/np/0.0.0.0:3260
$ echo 1 > fake-iscsi-path/iqn.2018-01.org.example:disk1/tpgt_1/enable

Then, you can start target-isns with the --configfs-iscsi-path option pointing to the fake configfs hierarchy:

$ ./src/target-isns --isns-server 127.0.0.1 --debug --configfs-iscsi-path fake-iscsi-path/

With this method, you can emulate large iSCSI configurations with many iSCSI targets and target portal groups.