iscsi-targets

Automatically create iSCSI targets for all drives except for a boot device.

Features

IQN of every iSCSI target includes drive model & serial number.
When you add such an iSCSI target in Atola imagers as a source drive, it will pull the drive model and serial number from IQN into a case.
You can specify a block device as an argument to create an iSCSI target for it.

Tested on various flavors of Linux like Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL, including DFIR boot images:

Paladin
Caine
Tsurugi

Why iSCSI targets

iSCSI is a network protocol that allows to access a physical or logical devices. To expose a physical or logical drive via iSCSI on a network, you need to set up an iSCSI target correctly.

Typical DFIR use cases have to do with image acquisition of:

Drives soldered into a motherboard or the ones that can't be seized.
Running servers that can't be shut down.

Another enterprise use case is a replication of an image to multiple computers over a network.

Requisites

Linux only. Python 3.6+ must be installed. The script will also check for and install two dependencies the first time it is run:

targetcli
python3-rtslib

Examples

Create iSCSI targets for all drives except for a boot device:

sudo python3 iscsi-targets.py

Create a single iSCSI target for specified /dev/sdb1 partition.

sudo python3 iscsi-targets.py /dev/sdb1

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