ZCS Administrator Guide 7.2.1

Open Source Edition

Creating Message of the Day for Administrators

Global administrators can create messages of the day (MOTD) that can be viewed when global and delegated administrators log into the administration console.

A global or domain multi-value attribute, zimbraAdminConsoleLoginMessage, is used to create a MOTD. The message is created from the CLI zmprov.

Every time an admin logs in the message displays at the top left on the administration console. They can close the message. The message displays until it is replaced or removed.

Example of a Message of the Day

To create a message of the day

You can create a message globally or for a specific domain.

1.	To create by domain type:

 

zmprov md domainexample.com zimbraAdminConsoleLoginMessage “message to display”

The quotes must be used.

You can create more than one message to display. Run the command again to create additional messages, but add a plus sign (+) before the attribute, as in this example

 

zmprov md domainexample.com +zimbraAdminConsoleLoginMessage “second message to display”

To remove a message of the day

To remove a specific message, type the attribute, adding a minus sign (-) before the attribute and type the message as it is shown.

 

zmprov md domainexample.com -zimbraAdminConsoleLoginMessage “message to display”

To remove all messages, type the attribute and add a single quote at the end.

 

zmprov md domainexample.com zimbraAdminConsoleLoginMessage ‘’