Configuring Terminal Display; Checking The Length Of Terminal Displays - HP ProCurve 9304M Installation And Configuration Manual

Configuring Basic Features
Setting a Privileged EXEC CLI Level Banner
You can configure the HP device to display a message when a user enters the Privileged EXEC CLI level. For
example:
HP9300(config)# banner exec_mode # (Press Return)
Enter TEXT message, End with the character '#'.
You are entering Privileged EXEC level
Don't foul anything up! #
As with the banner motd command, you begin and end the message with a delimiting character; in this example,
the delimiting character is # (pound sign). To remove the banner, enter the no banner exec_mode command.
Syntax: [no] banner exec_mode <delimiting-character>
Displaying a Message on the Console When an Incoming Telnet Session Is Detected
You can configure the HP device to display a message on the Console when a user establishes a Telnet session.
This message indicates where the user is connecting from and displays a configurable text message.
For example:
HP9300(config)# banner incoming $ (Press Return)
Enter TEXT message, End with the character '$'.
Incoming Telnet Session!! $
When a user connects to the CLI using Telnet, the following message appears on the Console:
Telnet from 209.157.22.63
Incoming Telnet Session!!
Syntax: [no] banner incoming <delimiting-character>
To remove the banner, enter the no banner incoming command.

Configuring Terminal Display

You can configure and display the number of lines displayed on a terminal screen during the current CLI session.
The terminal length command allows you to determine how many lines will be displayed on the screen during the
current CLI session. This command is useful when reading multiple lines of displayed information, especially
those that do not fit on one screen.
To specify the maximum number of lines displayed on one page, enter a command such as the following:
HP9300(config)# terminal length 15
Syntax: terminal length <number-of-lines>
The <number-of-lines> parameter indicates the maximum number of lines that will be displayed on a full screen of
text during the current session. If the displayed information requires more than one page, the terminal pauses.
Pressing the space bar displays the next page.
The default for <number-of-lines> is 24. Entering a value of 0 prevents the terminal from pausing between
multiple output pages:

Checking the Length of Terminal Displays

The show terminal command specifies the number of lines that will be displayed on the screen as specified by
the terminal length, page display, and skip-page-display commands. It also shows if the enable skip-page-
display command has been configured. The enable skip-page-display command allows you to use the skip-
page-display to disable the configured page-display settings.
HP9300(config)# show terminal
Length: 24 lines
Page display mode (session): enabled
Page display mode (global): enabled
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