Messages

You can configure Gaia to show a Banner Message and a Message of the Day to users when they log in.

	Banner Message	Message of the Day
Default Message	This system is for authorized use only	You have logged into the system
When shown in Gaia Portal	Browser login page, before logging in	After logging in to the system
When shown in Gaia Clish	When logging in, before entering the password	After logging in to the system
Default state	Enabled	Disabled

Configuring Messages - Gaia Portal

Step	Description
1	In the navigation tree, click System Management > Messages.
2	To enter a Banner message, select Banner message.
3	To enter a Message of the Day, select Message of the day.
4	Enter the message text.
5	Click Apply.

These limits apply:

Message type	Maximal supported total number of characters in the message	Maximal supported total number of lines in the message	Maximal supported number of characters in each line
Banner	1600	20	80
Message of the day	1200	20	400

Configuring Messages - Gaia Clish

Description

Set or show a banner message, or a message of the day.

Syntax for Banner message

• To show if the banner message is enabled or disabled:

  show message banner status

  show message all status

• To show the configured banner message:

  show message banner

  show message all

• To define a new single-line banner message:

  set message banner on msgvalue <Banner Text>

  Example:

  gaia> set message banner on msgvalue "This system is private and confidential"

• To define a new multi-line banner message:

  set message banner on line msgvalue <Banner Text for Line #1> set message banner on line msgvalue <Banner Text for Line #2>

• To enable or disable the configured banner message:

  set message banner on

  set message banner off

• To delete the configured banner message perform these two steps:

  a. Delete the user-defined banner message:

  delete message banner

  Note - This deletes the configured banner message, and replaces it with the default banner message "This system is for authorized use only."

  b. Disable the default banner:

  set message banner off

Syntax for Message of the Day

• To show the configured message of the day:

  show message motd

  show message all

• To show if the message of the day is enabled or disabled:

  show message motd status

  show message all status

• To define a new single-line message of the day:

  set message motd on msgvalue <Message Text>

  Example:

  gaia> set message motd on msgvalue "Hi all - no changes allowed today"

• To define a new multi-line message of the day:

  set message motd on line msgvalue <Message Text for Line #1> set message motd on line msgvalue <Message Text for Line #2>

• To enable or disable the configured message of the day:

  set message motd on

  set message motd off

• To delete the configured message of the day, perform these two steps:

  a. Delete the user-defined message of the day:

  delete message motd

  Note - This deletes the configured message of the day, and replaces it with the default message of the day "You have logged into the system."

  b. Disable the default message of the day:

  set message motd off

These limits apply:

Message type	Maximal supported total number of characters in the message	Maximal supported total number of lines in the message	Maximal supported number of characters in each line
Banner	1600	20	80
Message of the day	1200	20	400