Configuring Login Banners

You can define 3 types of login banners:

Message-of-the-Day Banner: Displayed when the user is connected to the device, before the user has logged in.

Login Banner: Displayed after the Message-of-the-Day Banner, and before the user has logged in.

Exec Banner: Displayed after successful login (in all privileged levels and in all authentication methods).

To view and configure login banners:

console# banner motd

Welcome

console# show banner

motd

console# banner login Please log in

console# show banner

login

console# banner exec

Successfully logged in

console# show banner

exec

Startup Procedures

Startup Menu Procedures

The procedures called from the Startup menu cover software download, flash handling and password recovery. The diagnostics procedures are for use by technical support personnel only and are not disclosed in the document.

You can enter the Startup menu when booting the device. The user input is to be entered immediately after the POST test.

To enter the Startup menu:

1Turn the power on and watch for the auto-boot message.

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Boot1 Checksum Test...............................PASS Boot2 Checksum Test...............................PASS Flash Image Validation Test.......................PASS BOOT Software Version 1.0.0.05 Built 06-Jan-xxxx 14:46:49

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