Banner Login - Cisco 300 Series Cli Manual

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Use tokens in the form of $(token) in the message text to customize the banner. The

tokens are described in the table below:

Information Displayed in the Banner

Displays the host name for the device.

Displays the domain name for the device.

Indicates that the next text is a bold text. Using this

token again indicates the end of the bold text.

Indicates that the next text is an inverse text. Using

this token again indicates the end of the inverse text.

Displays the system contact string.

Displays the system location string.

$(mac-addres

Displays the base MAC address of the device.

Use the no banner exec Line Configuration command to disable the Exec banner

on a particular line or lines.

The following example sets an EXEC 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.

switchxxxxxx(config)# banner exec %

Enter TEXT message. End with the character '%'.

$(bold)Session activated.$(bold) Enter commands at the prompt.

When a user logs on to the system, the following output is displayed:

Session activated. Enter commands at the prompt.

55.2 banner login

To specify a message to be displayed before the username and password login

prompts, use the banner login command in Global Configuration mode. This

banner is applied automatically on all the user interfaces: Console, Telnet and SSH

and also on the WEB GUI. To delete the existing login banner, use the no form of

this command

User Interface Commands

OL-32830-01 Command Line Interface Reference Guide