Configuring a login banner

The Extreme device can be configured to display a greeting message on user terminals as a banner when they enter the Privileged EXEC CLI level or access the device through Telnet/SSH.

Complete the following steps to set and display a banner.

  1. In privileged EXEC mode, access global configuration mode.
    device# configure terminal
    Entering configuration mode terminal
    
  2. Configure the login banner.
    device(config)# banner login "Please do not disturb the setup on this device"
    
    This example configures a text message on a single line by enclosing the text in double quotation marks (" ").

    The banner can be up to 2048 characters long. To create a multi-line banner, enter the banner login command followed by the Esc-m keys. Enter Ctrl-D to terminate the input.

    You can use the no banner login command to remove the banner.

  3. Verify the configured banner.
    device(config)# do show running-config banner

    The configured banner is displayed.

    banner login "Please do not disturb the setup on this device" 

The following example is the configuration of the previous steps.

device# configure terminal
Entering configuration mode terminal
device(config)# banner login "Please do not disturb the setup on this device"