Appendix B. iSCSI Gateway Variables
iSCSI Gateway General Variables
seed_monitor- Purpose
-
Each iSCSI gateway needs access to the Ceph storage cluster for RADOS and RBD calls. This means the iSCSI gateway must have an appropriate
/etc/ceph/directory defined. Theseed_monitorhost is used to populate the iSCSI gateway’s/etc/ceph/directory.
gateway_keyring- Purpose
- Define a custom keyring name.
perform_system_checks- Purpose
-
This is a Boolean value that checks for multipath and LVM configuration settings on each iSCSI gateway. It must be set to
truefor at least the first run to ensure themultipathddaemon and LVM are configured properly.
iSCSI Gateway RBD-TARGET-API Variables
api_user- Purpose
-
The user name for the API. The default is
admin.
api_password- Purpose
-
The password for using the API. The default is
admin.
api_port- Purpose
-
The TCP port number for using the API. The default is
5000.
api_secure- Purpose
-
Value can be
trueorfalse. The default isfalse.
loop_delay- Purpose
-
Controls the sleeping interval in seconds for polling the iSCSI management object. The default value is
1.
trusted_ip_list- Purpose
- A list of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses that have access to the API. By default, only the iSCSI gateway hosts have access.
