Verifying Islb Authentication Configuration; About Load Balancing Using Vrrp - Cisco MDS 9000 series Configuration Manual

Chapter 4 Configuring iSCSI
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m
To configure a per-initiator user name and password used by the switch to authenticate itself to an
initiator, follow these steps:
Command
Step 1
switch# config t
switch(config)#
Step 2
switch(config)# islb initiator name
iqn.1987-02.com.cisco.initiator
switch(config-islb-init)#
Step 3
switch(config-islb-init)# mutual-chap
username testuser password dcba12LKJ
switch(config-islb-init)# mutual-chap
username testuser password 7
!@*asdsfsdfjh!@df
Step 4
switch(config-iscsi-init)# no mutual-chap
username testuser

Verifying iSLB Authentication Configuration

Use the show running-config and the show iscsi global (see
global configuration. Use the show running-config and the show islb initiator configured (see
Example
To verify the iSLB user name and mutual CHAP configuration, use the show islb initiator configured
command.
switch# show islb initiator configured
iSCSI Node name is 10.1.1.3
Member of vsans: 3
User Name for login authentication: user1
User Name for Mutual CHAP: testuser
Load Balance Metric: 1000
Number of Initiator Targets: 1
Initiator Target: iqn.1987-05.com.cisco:05.ips-hac4

About Load Balancing Using VRRP

You can configure Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) load balancing for iSLB.
shows an example of load balancing using iSLB.
OL-19525-01,Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.2(1)
4-14) commands to display the initiator specific configuration.
Port WWN 50:06:04:82:ca:e1:26:8d
Zoning Enabled
No. of LU mapping: 3
iSCSI LUN: 0x0001, FC LUN: 0x0001
iSCSI LUN: 0x0002, FC LUN: 0x0002
iSCSI LUN: 0x0003, FC LUN: 0x0003
Purpose
Enters configuration mode.
Configures an iSLB initiator using the name of the
initiator node and enters iSLB initiator
configuration mode.
Configures the switch user account (testuser) along
with a password (dcba12LKJ) specified in clear
text (default). The password is limited to 128
characters.
Configures the switch user account (testuser) along
with the encrypted password specified by 7
(!@*asdsfsdfjh!@df).
Removes the switch authentication configuration.
Number of Initiator Targets: 1
Cisco MDS 9000 Family NX-OS IP Services Configuration Guide
Configuring iSLB
Example 4-6) commands to display the
Figure 4-14
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