What’s New

Support for Temporary Login Redirection

The HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator supports temporary login redirection. No configuration is required to take advantage of this new functionality.

Only valid information is displayed in the Target Alias field

In previous releases, the Target Alias field in the iscsiutil -pO output displayed meaningless information when a Target Alias was not set. This problem has been resolved so only meaningful information will be displayed.

The iSCSI start-up script issues bcheckrc and mountall conditionally

The iSCSI start-up script only issues bcheckrc and mountall when iSCSI devices are detected, otherwise there is no need to invoke bcheckrc and mountall.

Starting the SLP daemon does not fail with a FATAL Error message.

In previous releases, starting the SLP daemon (slpd) from the iSCSI start-up script failed in some circumstances, resulting in a FATAL Error message. This problem has been resolved.

All iscsiutil commands work correctly in the presence of more than 128 iSCSI targets.

In previous releases, certain iscsiutil commands did not work correctly when more than 128 iSCSI targets were present. This problem has been resolved.

By default, diagnostic messages with numerical values less than or equal to LVL_ERR (level 3) are logged to the syslog.log file.

The severity of diagnostic messages is inversely proportional to the logging level (the lower the logging level number, the higher the message severity). In previous releases, diagnostic messages with logging levels (numerical values) less than or equal to LVL_INFO (level 6) were logged to the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file by default, sometimes resulting in a flood of messages. Starting with this release of the iSCSI Software Initiator, the default logging level setting only logs messages with a logging level less than or equal to LVL_ERR (level 3) to the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file. The iscsiutil -b  option can be used to set a logging level parameter other than the default setting. For additional information on iSCSI Software Initiator diagnostic messages, refer to Appendix C of the HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator Support Guide (see Table 1-1 “HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator Documentation Availability” to access the latest edition).

Duplicate target information no longer appears in iscsiutil output.

In previous releases, duplicate target information could be registered in driver persistent store and appear in iscsiutil output. This problem has been fixed in Revision B.11.11.03d of the HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator.

Support for Temporary Login Redirection

The HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator supports temporary login redirection. No configuration is required to take advantage of this new functionality.

Starting the SLP daemon does not fail with a FATAL Error message.

In previous releases, starting the SLP daemon (slpd) from the iSCSI start-up script failed in some circumstances, resulting in a FATAL Error message. This problem has been resolved.

All iscsiutil commands work correctly in the presence of more than 128 iSCSI targets.

In previous releases, certain iscsiutil commands did not work correctly when more than 128 iSCSI targets were present. This problem has been resolved.

By default, diagnostic messages with numerical values less than or equal to LVL_ERR (level 3) are logged to the syslog.log file.

The severity of diagnostic messages is inversely proportional to the logging level (the lower the logging level number, the higher the message severity). In previous releases, diagnostic messages with logging levels (numerical values) less than or equal to LVL_INFO (level 6) were logged to the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file by default, sometimes resulting in a flood of messages. Starting with this release of the iSCSI Software Initiator, the default logging level setting only logs messages with a logging level less than or equal to LVL_ERR (level 3) to the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file. The iscsiutil -b  option can be used to set a logging level parameter other than the default setting. For additional information on iSCSI Software Initiator diagnostic messages, refer to Appendix C of the HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator Support Guide (see Table 1-1 “HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator Documentation Availability” to access the latest edition).

The Veritas Volume Manager™ (VxVM) is supported with the HP-UX iSCSI Software Intitiator Revision B.11.23.03d (VxVM is also supported with revision B.11.23.03c).

Duplicate target information no longer appears in iscsiutil output.

In previous releases, duplicate target information could be registered in driver persistent store and appear in iscsiutil output. This problem has been fixed in Revision B.11.23.03d of the HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator.