Operation Manual – System Maintenance and DebuggingH3C S3610&S5510 Series Ethernet Switches Chapter 1 Basic Configurations1-151.2.5 Configuring Welcome InformationI. Introduction to welcome informationWelcome information is a piece of prompt displayed when a user connects to a devicefor logging and interoperation. The administrator is allowed to configure the banner asthe situation requires.For the time being, there are five kinds of banners available:z Shell welcome information or session banner, displayed when you enter consolesession.z User interface welcome information or incoming banner, displayed when a userinterface is enabled by TTY Modem.z Logging welcome information or login banner, displayed when the user configurespassword authentication and scheme authentication,z MOTD welcome information, displayed before the authentication is started.z Authorization welcome information or legal banner. When a user logins into adevice, the system displays some copyright or authorization information and alegal banner and waits for confirmation of the user. If the user enters “Y” or the key, the authentication or login process continues; if the user enters “N”,the authentication or login process breaks. "Y” and “N” are case-insensitive.II. Configuring welcome informationThere are two modes to configure welcome information:The first mode is to enter all the welcome content right after the command keywords inone line. The beginning character and the end character of the entered content must bethe same, but the two characters are not part of the welcome information. In this case,the command keywords, the beginning and end characters, and the welcomeinformation altogether must not exceed 510 characters. The second mode is to enterthe welcome content in two or more lines, each line ended with an key. In thiscase, the content may be up to 2000 characters.You can enter contents in multiple lines in three ways:z Straight in the first line: End the configuration with “%”. The and“%” characters are not included in the banner content.z One character followed with in the first line: End the configuration with thecharacter entered in the first line. The character entered in the first line and theending character are not included in the banner content.z Multiple characters (the leading and ending characters are different) followed with in the first line: End the configuration with the first character of the first line.The first character of the first line and the ending character are not included in thebanner content.