Re: iSCSI: Question on use of Target Alias

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

Kevin-

That's correct; TargetAlias is not sent on a discovery session
(since it's not really connected to a target).

There was some debate about returning it along with TargetName
and TargetAddress keys quite some time ago.  The team chose to
keep SendTargets simpler and not include it.

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Mark

"LEMAY,KEVIN (A-Roseville,ex1)" wrote:
> 
> The v15 Working spec says:
> 
> "If a target has been configured with a human-readable name or description, this name SHOULD be communicated to the initiator dur- ing a Login Response PDU. This string is not used as an identifier, nor is meant to be used for authentication or authorization deci- sions. It can be displayed by the initiator's user interface in a list of targets to which it is connected."
> 
> I am assuming that this only applies to normal logins?
> 
> The text says that the key is not sent during the sendTargets operations because in Appendix D, it says:
> 
> "The response to this command is a text response that contains a list of zero or more targets and, optionally, their addresses. Each tar- get is returned as a target record. A target record begins with the TargetName text key, followed by a list of TargetAddress text keys, and bounded by the end of the text response or the next TargetName key, which begins a new record. No text keys other than TargetName and TargetAddress are permitted within a SendTargets response."
> 
> So the only valid use of this key is during normal login, correct?
> 
> Kevin

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