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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''DISCOVERY CHAP Users authentication''' allows You to add restrictions <font face="Arial">for initiators that discovers the iSCSI targets.</font></span></span>
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This functionality enables a secure identification of iSCSI targets for specified CHAP user/users only (CHAP logon).
<span style="font-size:small;">CHAP ('''Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol'''<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">)&nbsp;</span>Log on information helps ensure connection security by providing the authentication.</span>
 
<span style="font-size:small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">Without using the proper CHAP credentials, the initiators cannot discover the iSCSI targets. The initiator must be able to discover the volume first before it can connect to the volume.</span>
 
<span style="font-size:small;">To use, specify the username and CHAP target secret (password). These credentials need to be set also on the initiator side for the Discovery portal option.</span>
<div><span style="font-size: small;">To save the settings, press the&nbsp;</span>'''APPLY&nbsp;'''<span style="font-size: small;">button.</span></div>
<span style="font-size:small;">'''NOTE&nbsp;:&nbsp;'''</span>


<span style="font-size:small;">If users forget their password, there is no way to retrieve it. You can only set a new password.</span>
If this setting is enabled you will have to create at least one CHAP user, otherwise you will not be able to discover any targets from this system.
 
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Latest revision as of 13:46, 28 March 2019

This functionality enables a secure identification of iSCSI targets for specified CHAP user/users only (CHAP logon).

If this setting is enabled you will have to create at least one CHAP user, otherwise you will not be able to discover any targets from this system.