Restarting the ISCSI SAN

The ISCSI SAN periodically dies and the file systems become inaccessible. Logwatch error symptoms can look like this:

 --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------

WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
   connection0:0: iscsi: detected conn error (1011) ...:  3 Time(s)
  Buffer I/O error on device sdc1,  ...:  29 Time(s)
  EXT2-fs error (device sdc1): e ...:  171 Time(s)
  end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector ...:  2421 Time(s)
  lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1 ...:  29 Time(s)
  sd 3:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0 ...:  2421 Time(s)
  sd 3:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code ueu ...:  1 Time(s)

To restart, follow these steps:

1. Log into the local NavSphere Express web utility running on the SAN.
2. Restart the SAN via NavSphere
3. Reboot the Linux server that mounts the SAN. If you don't want to reboot, try restarting the iscsi daemon and remounting the file system. Use fdisk -l to make sure that the iscsi devices are visible.

services iscsi restart
fdisk -l
mount /my/iscsi/partition