Re: RFC: libiscsi-wip

2012-11-13 Thread Andy Grover
On 11/13/2012 02:03 PM, Mike Christie wrote: > We also want the hosts/ifaces/hw-ports. With that object or objects: > > - We need something to represent the iSCSI HBA, and its physical ports. > We need to be able to set/get iscsi/net settings for these. > > - We need something to represent the is

Re: RFC: libiscsi-wip

2012-11-13 Thread Andy Grover
On 11/13/2012 02:03 PM, Mike Christie wrote: > On 11/12/2012 12:19 PM, Andy Grover wrote: >> OK how is this object tree in representing what we want? >> >> a system has 1+ Nodes (iqns) >> Nodes have 1+ Portals (IP addresses) >> Portals have 1+ Sessions > > I think I would add the iscsi connection

Re: RFC: libiscsi-wip

2012-11-13 Thread Mike Christie
On 11/13/2012 04:03 PM, Mike Christie wrote: > We also want the hosts/ifaces/hw-ports. With that object or objects: > > - We need something to represent the iSCSI HBA, and its physical ports. > We need to be able to set/get iscsi/net settings for these. > > - We need something to represent the is

Re: RFC: libiscsi-wip

2012-11-13 Thread Mike Christie
On 11/12/2012 12:19 PM, Andy Grover wrote: > On 11/08/2012 07:22 PM, Mike Christie wrote: >> On 11/08/2012 05:32 PM, Andy Grover wrote: >>> The Red Hat packaging of open-iscsi (iscsi-initiator-utils) has >>> contained C and Python libraries for open-iscsi since 2009. These have >>> been used only b

RE: RFC: libiscsi-wip

2012-11-12 Thread Shyam_Iyer
Just a thought.. if this was being overhauled considering a REST-like interface to manage iSCSI would go a long way in solving manageability issues. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@g

Re: RFC: libiscsi-wip

2012-11-12 Thread Andy Grover
On 11/08/2012 07:22 PM, Mike Christie wrote: > On 11/08/2012 05:32 PM, Andy Grover wrote: >> The Red Hat packaging of open-iscsi (iscsi-initiator-utils) has >> contained C and Python libraries for open-iscsi since 2009. These have >> been used only by the Anaconda installer, and haven't been pushed

Antw: Re: RFC: libiscsi-wip

2012-11-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Accidentially yesterday I was thinking that some graphical frontend (like "hawk for clusters) would be nice for iSCSI. If I'd design a interface library, I'd use a two-level approach: The higher level would provide interfaces at an abstract level (like: start_discovery, login_target, delete

Re: RFC: libiscsi-wip

2012-11-08 Thread Mike Christie
On 11/08/2012 05:32 PM, Andy Grover wrote: > Hi Mike and everybody, > > The Red Hat packaging of open-iscsi (iscsi-initiator-utils) has > contained C and Python libraries for open-iscsi since 2009. These have > been used only by the Anaconda installer, and haven't been pushed upstream. > Have y