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Welcome EXT Policy

About

Based on the Access Point it is possible to display a message on the login page.

This piece of information has a time interval, from when and how long the information will be presented to the user before login.
To display the message a some HTML tags and placeholders are allowed.

The text can be entered manually or chosen from a text catalog (see also: Messages in VISULOX).


Definition

Presentation

Allowed tags in messages

ModesTag
bold<b>text</b>
center<center>text</center>
italic<i>text</i>
line break<br>
horizontal line<hr>
link

<a href="link">link text</a>

(Be careful: only one link per line!)

Allowed placeholders in messages

%OWNER%%HOST%%NODE%%GWIP%%SYSTEMID% 
%OWNERID%%HOSTSHORT%%RIP%%GWIPLAST%%LICENSE%

%OWNERSHORT%

%HOSTIP%%AP%%GWHOST%%CUSTOMER% 
%FULLNAME%%HOSTIPLAST%%APNODE%%GWNODE%

Configuration

The minimum words and the maximum length of the message can be set via a configuration parameter.

Minimum words of Welcome EXT message

CODE
visulox config list -name  entry.minwords.external_message_policy

    --------------------------------------------------------------
    | parameter                              |      type | value |
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    | entry.minwords.external_message_policy | OPERATION | 1     |

Maximum length of Welcome EXT message

CODE
visulox config list -name entry.maxlength.external_message_policy

    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    | parameter                               |      type | value   |
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    | entry.maxlength.external_message_policy | OPERATION | default |
    -----------------------------------------------------------------


If default is set, the default value will be used for the message. These default values can also be adjusted:

All configuration parameters set to default will also have the new values after these settings are changed.

CODE
visulox config list -name entry.minwords.default

    ----------------------------------------------
    | parameter              |      type | value |
    ----------------------------------------------
    | entry.minwords.default | OPERATION | 0     |
    ----------------------------------------------

visulox config list -name entry.maxlength.default

    -----------------------------------------------
    | parameter               |      type | value |
    -----------------------------------------------
    | entry.maxlength.default | OPERATION | 255   |
    -----------------------------------------------


All external login messages can be disabled with:

CODE
visulox config -name design.ui4.loginmessages=false
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