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On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Andy Grover <agrover at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> It is designed entirely for interactive use. Local programmatic
> configuration should be done via rtslib. Remote programmatic
> configuration should be done via targetd.
> 
> If neither of these is really an option, I'd actually prefer you write a
> custom executable wrapper around rtslib that does what you need. This
> will also avoid pulling in the dependencies needed for targetcli's
> interactive capability.
> 
> I am of the opinion that using libraries is infinitely preferable to
> shelling out to execute cmdline tools, see:
> 
> http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2012/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Grover-APIs.odp
> 
> I certainly understand needing to do so for the many existing tools that
> don't have libraries, but to force this model when proper APIs are
> available (in Python, even) seems less than ideal.

An implementation of:

class LioAdm(TargetAdmin):

using rtslib seems fairly trivial.

I would suggest going that route to start. We can also have a targetd version but
that is definitely a bigger task.

Vish