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53 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a CIFS or VTL Backup Target on EMC® Networker® | April 2015
A Managing VTL protocol accounts and credentials
A.1 iSCSI account details and management
By default the iSCSI Username will be the hostname of the DR and can be confirmed by reviewing the
output of the iscsi account --user command. For example:
>iscsi --account --user
user: dr9-interop-a7
The default iSCSI Password is “St0r@ge!iscsi. This can be modified by navigating to the Clients Navigation
option and selecting the iSCSI tab under the Clients menu. Select the the Edit CHAP Password and fill in
the new password as needed.
IMPORTANT NOTE: iSCSI CHAP Passwords must be between 12 and 16 characters long.
Alternatively, you may also use the “iscsi setpassword” cli tool to change the iSCSI CHAP Password
setting as shown in the following example:
> iscsi --setpassword
WARNING: All existing iSCSI sessions will be terminated!
Do you want to continue? (Yes/no) [n]?
Enter new CHAP password:############
Re-type CHAP password:############