Configure banners

The commands below are used to configure banner messages. The banner messages are used to provide information to the user when the device is accessed. There are three commands that can be used to setup banner messages as explained below:

• banner incoming –sets the incoming banner message. The message is seen on the console when a user accesses the device.
• banner motd –sets the message of the day banner. The message is displayed when the device receives a login request. Also used to display a message for other users of the switch.
• banner login –sets the switch banner and the message is displayed after the user is authenticated.

Banner length is from 1 – 2048 characters, which can be issued as a single line of text, or in multiline mode by pressing esc m.

Each of these commands can be invoked from the CLI in configure mode as shown below:

device # banner incoming <message> 
device # no banner incoming
device # banner motd <message> 
device # no banner motd
device # banner login <message> 
device # no banner login