About iSNS Client Functionality
Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) allows your existing TCP/IP network to function more effectively as a SAN by automating the discovery, management, and configuration of iSCSI devices. The iSNS client registers iSCSI portals and all iSCSI devices accessible through them with an iSNS server. All iSCSI devices (both initiator and target) acting as iSNS clients can register with an iSNS server. You must specify an iSNS server's IP address by creating an iSNS profile, adding the server's IP address to it, and then assigning (or "tagging") the profile to the interface. An iSNS profile can be tagged to one or more interfaces. When the iSNS client is unable to register or deregister objects with the iSNS server (for example, the client is unable to make a TCP connection to the iSNS server), it retries every minute to reregister all iSNS objects for the affected interfaces with the iSNS server.
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