Banner and Message Commands

banner-motd

To configure a banner and message of the day (MOTD), use the banner-motd command in global configuration mode. To remove the banner or MOTD, use the no form of the command.

banner-motd { banner string | motd string }

no banner-motd [ banner | motd ]

Syntax Description

banner string

Specifies the banner text.

motd string

Specifies the MOTD text.

Command Default

None

Command Modes

Global configuration (config)

Command History

Release Modification
3.5.1

This command was introduced.

Usage Guidelines

To verify the configuration, use the show running-config banner-motd command. To delete both the banner and the MOTD configuration, use the no banner-motd command without any keywords and arguments.

Examples

The following example shows how to configure both the banner and the MOTD: 


nfvis(config)# banner-motd banner "This is a new banner" motd "This is a new motd" 
nfvis(config)# commit
nfvis(config)# end

show banner-motd

To display the system-defined banner, use the show banner-motd command in privileged EXEC mode.

show banner-motd [system-banner]

Syntax Description

system-banner

The system-defined banner.

Command Default

The system-defined banner is displayed.

Command Modes

Privileged EXEC (#)

Command History

Release Modification
3.5.1

This command was introduced.

Usage Guidelines

This command displays only the system-defined banner. It does not display the user-defined banner or message of the day.

Examples

The following is a sample output of the show banner-motd command: 


nfvis# show banner-motd 
banner-motd system-banner "\nCisco Enterprise Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure Software (NFVIS)\n\nCopyright (c) 2015-2016 by Cisco Systems, Inc.\nCisco, Cisco Systems, and Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco\nSystems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries.
\n\nThe copyrights to certain works contained in this software are owned by other\nthird parties and used and distributed under third party license agreements.\nCertain components of this software are licensed under the GNU GPL 2.0, GPL 3.0,\nLGPL 2.1, LGPL 3.0 and AGPL 3.0.\n\n\n"

show running-config banner-motd

To display the configured banner and MOTD, use the show running-config banner-motd command in privileged EXEC mode.

show running-config banner-motd [banner | motd]

Syntax Description

banner

(Optional) Specifies to display only banner information.

motd

(Optional) Specifies to display only MOTD information.

Command Default

Information about configured banner and MOTD is displayed.

Command Modes

Privileged EXEC (#)

Command History

Release Modification
3.5.1

This command was introduced.

Examples

The following is a sample output of the show running-config banner-motd command: 


nfvis# show running-config banner-motd
banner-motd banner ExampleBanner
banner-motd motd ExampleMOTD