Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Storage System CLI Reference Guide

You can change the CHAP record secret, mutual name, and mutual secret values. This command is permitted whether or not CHAP is enabled.

For a login request from an initiator to a storage system, the initiator is the originator and the storage system is the recipient. Because CHAP works during login, to make CHAP changes take effect you must reset any active iSCSI host links.

name <originator-name>

[mutual-name <recipient-name> mutual-secret <recipient-secret>]

The originator name, typically in IQN format.

The secret that the recipient uses to authenticate the originator. The secret is case sensitive and can include 12–16 bytes. The value can include spaces and printable UTF-8 characters except: " <

Optional; for mutual CHAP only. The recipient name, typically in IQN format. The name is case sensitive and can have a maximum of 223 bytes, including 0–9, lowercase a–z, hyphen, colon, and period. To determine a storage system’s IQN, use the show ports command to view the Target ID value for an iSCSI port. This parameter and mutual-secret must be set together.

Optional; for mutual CHAP only. The secret that the originator uses to authenticate the recipient. The secret is case sensitive, can include 12–16 bytes, and must differ from the originator secret. The value can include spaces and printable UTF-8 characters except: " <

A storage system’s secret is shared by both controllers. This parameter and mutual-name must be set together

For mutual CHAP, add a recipient name and secret to a CHAP record.

create chap-record

delete chap-records

show chap-records

show iscsi-parameters

show ports