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System Administration
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Displaying a Greeting or Notice Before the Login Prompt
You can create a greeting, notice, caution, or warning message that appears before
the Technician Interface
Login: prompt. To create and initialize this message on
the router, proceed as follows:
1.
Create an ASCII file named
ti_notice.txt
on your UNIX workstation or
PC.
2.
Enter the text of a greeting or notice message that meets your
requirements.
Format the message with appropriate spacing and return characters.
3.
Save
ti_notice.txt
on your workstation or PC.
4.
Use TFTP to copy
ti_notice.txt
to the router default file system volume.
Whenever someone attempts to log in to the router, the message appears on the
router local console display or the remote user’s Telnet screen.
Customizing the Technician Interface Welcome Message
You can modify or replace the login message Welcome to the <router_model>
Technician Interface
according to the needs of your organization or network site.
The Technician Interface software invokes the message from an ASCII text file
named ti_msg.txt.
To replace or customize the Welcome message on a particular router:
1.
Back up or copy
ti_msg.txt
to another file name (such as
ti_msg.txt.orig
)
on the router.
You may want to restore the default Welcome message at some later time.
Note:
The router software imposes no limit on the size of the message (in kB).
However, the file system volume (flash card) where the ti_notice.txt file resides
must have enough contiguous free space to accommodate your message.
Depending on the setup of a user’s console device or Telnet application, the
topmost lines of a long pre-login message may scroll out of view. For this
reason, we recommend that you limit the length of your message to less than
20 lines.