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User Interface Commands
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Default Configuration
Disabled (no MOTD banner is displayed).
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
Follow this command with one or more blank spaces and a delimiting
character of your choice. Then enter one or more lines of text, terminating
the message with the second occurrence of the delimiting character.
When a user connects to a device, the message-of-the-day (MOTD) banner
appears first, followed by the login banner and prompts. After the user logs in
to the device, the EXEC banner is displayed.
Use tokens in the form of
$(token)
in the message text to customize the
banner. The tokens are described in the table below:
Use the
no motd-banner
line configuration command to disable the MOTD
banner on a particular line or lines.
Example
The following example sets an MOTD banner that uses tokens. The percent
sign (
%
) is used as a delimiting character. Note that the
$(token)
syntax is
replaced by the corresponding configuration variable.
To k e n
I n f o r m a t i o n d i s p l a y e d i n t h e b a n n e r
$(hostname)
Displays the host name for the device.
$(domain)
Displays the domain name for the device.
$(bold)
Indicates that the next text is a bold text. Using this token
again to indicates the end of the bold text.
$(inverse)
Indicates that the next text is an inverse text. Using this
token again indicates the end of the inverse text.
$(contact)
Displays the system contact string.
$(location)
Displays the system location string.
$(mac-address)
Displays the base MAC address of the device.
