3Com WXR100 3CRWXR10095A, WX4400 3CRWX440095A To specify a Motd banner, use the following command

120CHAPTER 6: CONFIGURING AND MANAGING IP INTERFACES AND SERVICES

Setting a Message of You can configure the WX switch to display a Message of the Day the Day (MOTD) (MOTD) banner, which is a string of text that is displayed before the

Banner 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.

Prompting the User to Acknowledge the MOTD Banner

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

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.