Configuring the CLI Banner

RUCKUS devices can be configured to display a greeting message on users’ terminals when they enter the privileged EXEC CLI level or access the device through Telnet. In addition, a RUCKUS device can display a message on the console when an incoming Telnet CLI session is detected.
If you are using a Web client to view the message of the day, and the banners are very wide, with large borders, you may need to set your PC display resolution to a number greater than the width of your banner. For example, if your banner is 100 characters wide and the display is set to 80 characters, the banner may distort, or wrap, and be difficult to read. If you set your display resolution to 120 characters, the banner will display correctly.
Note: When configuring from SmartZone, terminate each line, except the last line on the banner string with a delimiting character.
  1. Enter global configuration mode.
    device# configure terminal
  2. Set the message of the day (MOTD) banner on the user terminal using a delimiting character.
    device(config)# banner motd c 
Enter TEXT message, End with the character 'c'.
Welcome!!! c
    In this example, the delimiting character is "$" (dollar sign). The text in between the dollar signs is the content of the banner. The banner text can be up to 4,000 characters long, which can consist of multiple lines.
  3. Set a privileged EXEC CLI level banner.
    device(config)# banner exec
ASCII string   c banner text c, where 'c' is a delimiting character
<cr>
device(config)# banner exec $
Enter TEXT message, End with the character '$'.
TEST PRIVILEGE MODE $
    You can configure the RUCKUS device to display a message when a user enters the privileged EXEC CLI level.

The following example shows how to configure CLI banner with "$" (dollar sign) as the delimiting character, requires pressing the Enter key.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# banner motd $ 
Enter TEXT message, End with the character '$'
Welcome!!! $
device(config)# banner exec
ASCII string   c banner text c, where 'c' is a delimiting character
<cr>
device(config)# banner exec $
Enter TEXT message, End with the character '$'.
TEST PRIVILEGE MODE $
Parent topic: Configuration Fundamentals