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"How to set Message Of The Day and Bannerset on Brocade Switch."
Reference: Dell Knowledge Article number 180134.
This video was created to show how a text message can be displayed
before and after login, with MOTD and Bannerset.
MOTD stands for Message Of The Day.
This command is used to display the message
before a user logging in to the switch.
The message should be enclosed in double quotations
and the limit is 1022 characters.
Bannerset command is used to
display the message after a user logging in to the switch.
When banner operand is used, the length is 116 characters.
Length of 1022 characters
is the limit allowed when using interactive method.
To close the banner text
a period needs to be entered at the beginning of a new line.
Kindly note that the maximum length of characters
varies from FOS, version to version.
This video presents the procedure or example
to set MOTD and banner.
Kindly take a moment to go through the examples.
This section displays examples for bannerset and bannershow.
This demo is set up with Brocade DS 6510 switch.
Now, let us begin with the configuration.
MOTD is used to display Message Of The Day
before logging on to the switch.
This example is to show MOTD message exceeding 1022 characters.
Make sure the message is enclosed with double quotations.
We get this message when the MOTD has more than 1022 characters.
Now, this example is to show characters less than 1022.
Display the text string of the MOTD.
At this time we will see how to set a banner, which is displayed after log in.
In this example, banner text is executed with banner operand
where the valid length is 116 characters.
Since the given text length is exceeding 116 characters
this message is seen.
Now, this example is executed
to show banner text with interactive method
where valid length is 1022 characters.
When using interactive method
make sure to close the banner text string
using a period at the beginning of a new line.
Display the text string of the banner.
To see the changes made in effect, log in to the switch
and check if the text string is displayed.
Reference the following for more information.
The document is available on Dell EMC Support Site.
Knowledge Base article 180134 is available on the support forum.
Both video and content are based on Fabric Operating System version 8.2.x
command reference guide.
This document is available on Dell EMC Support Site
and pin refer subtopics: bannerset and MOTD.
Thank you for watching.