3Com WX4400 3CRWX440095A - Manual (Page 120)

120 C HAPTER 6: C ONFIGURING AND M ANAGING IP I NTERFACES AND S ERVICES
Setting a Message of
the Day (MOTD)
Banner
You can configure the WX switch to display a Message of the Day
(MOTD)
banner, which is a string of text that is displayed before the
beginning of the login prompt for a user’s CLI session. The MOTD
banner can be a message to users, or legal and
government-mandated warning messages.
To specify a MOTD banner, use the following command:
set banner motd “text”
The MOTD banner text can be up to 4096 characters in length, enclosed
in
delimiting characters, for example double quotes ( “ ).
The following command sets the MOTD banner on the WX:
WX# set banner motd "Meeting @ 4:00 p.m. in Conference Room #3"
success: motd changed.
To display the configured MOTD banner text, use the following
command:
display banner motd
To clear the MOTD banner from the WX configuration, use the following
command:
clear banner motd
Prompting the User
to Acknowledge the
MOTD Banner
Optionally, you can prompt the user to acknowledge the MOTD banner
by
entering y to continue. To do this, use the following commands:
set banner acknowledge mode {enable | disable}
set banner acknowledge message “message”
The message is displayed at the end of the MOTD, and can be up to 32
characters in length. In response, the user has the option of entering y to
proceed or any other key to terminate the connection.
The following command enables the prompt for the MOTD banner:
WX# set banner acknowledge enable
success: change accepted.
The following command sets Do you agree? as the text to be displayed
following the MOTD banner:
WX# set banner acknowledge message ‘Do you agree?’
success: change accepted.