Login/CLI Banner

This dialog allows you to display a greeting or information text to users before they login to the device.

The dialog contains the following tabs:

Login Banner

This tab allows you to show the users a greeting or information text in the login dialog of the graphical user interface and in the command line interface before the users login.

Users logging in in the command line interface with SSH see the text - regardless of the client used - before or during the login.

Function

Parameter

Meaning

“Operation”

When this function is switched on, the device shows the text defined in the “Banner Text” field to the users that login in the login dialog of the graphical user interface or in the command line interface.

Possible values:

  • “Off” (default setting)

  • “On”


Banner Text

Parameter

Meaning

“Banner Text”

Specifies the text that the device displays in the login dialog of the graphical user interface and in the command line interface.

Possible values:

  • Alphanumeric ASCII character string with 0..255 characters

    (0x20..0x7E) including spaces

  • Tab \t (Tabulator key)

  • Line break \n (Enter key)

“Remaining Characters”

Shows how many characters are still available in the “Banner Text” field.

Possible values:

  • 255..0


CLI Banner

This tab page allows you to display an individual text only in the command line interface.

In the default setting, the CLI start screen shows information about the device, such as the software version and the device settings. With the function on this tab page, you deactivate this information and replace it with an individually definable text.

Function

Parameter

Meaning

“Operation”

When this function is switched on, the device shows the text information defined in the “Banner Text” field to the users that login to the device via the command line interface.

When the function is switched off, the CLI start screen shows information about the device. The text information in the “Banner Text” field is retained.

Possible values:

  • “Off” (default setting)

  • “On”


Banner Text

Parameter

Meaning

“Banner Text”

Defines the text information that the device displays to the users instead of the default information.

Possible values:

  • Alphanumeric ASCII character string with 0..2048 characters

    (0x20..0x7E) including spaces

  • Tab \t (Tabulator key)

  • Line break \n (Enter key)

“Remaining Characters”

Shows how many characters are still remaining in the “Banner Text” field for the text information.

Possible values:

  • 2048..0


Buttons

Tab. Buttons (Forts.)

Button

Meaning

“Set”

Transfers the changes to the volatile memory (RAM) of the device. To permanently save the changes afterwards, you open the Basic Settings:Load/Save dialog and click “Save”.

“Reload”

Updates the fields with the values that are saved in the volatile memory (RAM) of the device.

“Help”

Opens the online help.