HP A7500 Series Configuration Manual page 161

Banner types
You can configure the following banners:
• Legal banner appears after the system displays the copyright or license statement for a user
attempting to log in. To continue authentication or login, the user must enter Y or press Enter. To quit
the process, the user must enter N. Y and N are case insensitive.
Message of the Day (MOTD) banner displays the greeting message and appears after the legal
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banner and before the login banner.
Login banner appears only when password or scheme login authentication has been configured.
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Incoming banner appears for Modem dial-in users and the shell banner appears for users that use
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any other access method to access the CLI.
Message input modes
The system supports single-line input and multiple-line input for configuring a banner.
Single-line input
1.
In single-line input mode, all banner information is input in the same line. The start and end characters
of the input text must be the same and are not part of the banner information. The input text, together with
the command keywords, cannot exceed 510 characters. In this mode, do not press Enter after typing the
banner information. For example, you can configure the banner "Have a nice day." as follows:
<System> system-view
[System] header shell %Have a nice day.%
Multiple-line input
2.
In multiple-line input mode, you can press Enter to separate the banner information in multiple lines. In
this case, up to 2000 characters can be typed.
Multi-line input can be performed with the following methods:
Method I—Press the Enter key directly after the command keywords, type the banner information,
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and end with the % character. The % character is not part of the banner information. For example,
you can configure the banner "Have a nice day. Please input the Password!" as follows:
<System> system-view
[System] header shell
Please input banner content, and quit with the character '%'.――System prompt
Have a nice day.
Please input the Password!%
• Method II—Type a character after the command keywords at the first line, and then press Enter.
Type the banner information, and end with the character you typed at the first line. The start
character and the end character are not part of the banner information. For example, you can
configure the banner "Have a nice day. Please input the Password!" as follows:
<System> system-view
[System] header shell A
Please input banner content, and quit with the character 'A'.――System prompt
Have a nice day.
Please input the Password!A
Method III—Type multiple characters after the command keywords at the first line (with the first and
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last characters being different), and then press Enter. Type the rest banner information, and end
with the first character you typed at the first line. The first input character at the first line and the end
character are not part of the banner information. For example, you can configure the banner "Have
a nice day. Please input the Password!" as follows:
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