For the love of ASCII art banners, please implement a monospaced font for the banner display in system manager instead of the HTML display.
#Monospaced font for System Manager Banner
winged coral
sour horizon
Variable pitch in computer settings is my pet peave too. Not only in the banner, but in many lists, when you are trying to line things up.
orchid nexus
oh while talking about banners, please increase the maximum size of the MOTD, 2000 bytes is very little (especially when using things like ANSI sequences) 🙂
since we discovered that you can use ANSI in the MOTD, our logins are much nicer 🙂
fickle crag
orchid nexus
ooooh that's also a good one 🙂
And selecting "Global Thermonuclear War" automatically does a 4a 😄
fickle crag
i have it on my fas2552. Clustername is WOPER
orchid nexus
Wasn't it "WOPR"? War Operations Planning and Research?
In any case, I'll add that to one of our lab systems... I'm curious as to how many people will get it though 🙂
keen dock
since we discovered that you can use ANSI in the MOTD, our logins are much nicer...
How do we get this? 🤯
orchid nexus
How do we get this? 🤯
you have to create a text file with ANSI escape sequences in it and then use the motd modify -uri to download it from ONTAP
solar lance
i'm guessing you custom made that for each of your clusters and it isn't pulling data from somewhere dynamically?
orchid nexus
yeah, it's custom made, at least at the moment. We're thinking about automating it for our customers to some extent, but as of now it's just a "proof of concept" 🙂
the 2000 character limit is our main issue, every color change costs up to 10 characters which quickly adds up if you change colors multiple times per row etc.
solar lance
how do you pull the connected via, users connected and ontap version?
orchid nexus
there are variables you can use in the MOTD
keen dock
you have to create a text file with ANSI escape sequences in it and then use the...
Sharing is caring? 
orchid nexus
how do you pull the connected via, users connected and ontap version?
the motd modify man page is a bit broken but it shows the variables that you can use. The question mark should be a backslash, so \u shows the number of users connected etc.
solar lance
ah, ok. so that is options directly from the system.
Cool, thanks. I have honestly never looked at the MOTD other than our company warning
orchid nexus
it also depends heavily on the SSH client you use, PuTTY can use all colors and unicode characters, as long as you specify UTF-8 in its encoding options somewhere... Linux and other clients might show garbled stuff