Brocade iSCSI Gateway Service Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000440-01, June 2007)

iSCSI Gateway Service Administrator’s Guide 29

Publication Number: 53-1000440-01

Committing the iSCSI-related configuration

This section explains how to save iSCSI-related configuration parameters, including iSCSI VTs,

discovery domains, discovery domain sets, and CHAP authentication, after they have been defined.

Each set of changes, additions, and deletions is called a “transaction.”

DISPLAYING CURRENT TRANSACTIONS

Review the current transaction before committing the changes; once the changes are committed,

they are enforced fabric-wide.

To display transactions

1. Connect and log in to the switch.

2. Enter the iscsiCfg

--show transaction command as follows:

switch:admin> iscsicfg --show transaction

Active transaction ID is: 10490 and the owner is: CLI.

The following groups have been modified:

1. Auth. group.

2. Target/LUN group.

3. DD/DDSet group.

SAVING CURRENT TRANSACTIONS

Use the iscsiCfg command to commit the iSCSI changes. The --commit all option triggers

propagation of the database to all iSCSI-capable platforms in the fabric and commits the changes.

To save the transactions

1. Connect to the switch and log in.

2. Enter the iscsiCfg

--commit all command as follows:

switch:admin> iscsicfg --commit all

This will commit ALL database changes made to all iSCSI switches in fabric.

This could be a long-running operation.

Continue (yes, y, no, n) [n]: y

The operation completed successfully.

3. To verify that the changes were committed, enter the iscsiCfg --show transaction command as

follows:

switch:admin> iscsicfg --show transaction

There is no active transaction

CAUTION

Make all necessary changes to the database—VT creation, LUN additions, DD creation, DDSet

creation, and so on—before issuing the iscsicfg --commit all command.