Configure Banners, Message of the Day, and Logos

Configure the login banner.
Select
Device
Setup
Management
and edit the General Settings.
Enter the
Login Banner
(up to 3,200 characters).
(
Optional
) Select
Force Admins to Acknowledge Login Banner
to force administrators to select an
I Accept and Acknowledge the Statement Below
check box above the banner text to activate the
Login
button.
Click
OK
.
Set the message of the day.
Select
Device
Setup
Management
and edit the Banners and Messages settings.
Enable the
Message of the Day
.
Enter the
Message of the Day
(up to 3,200 characters).
After you enter the message and click
OK
, administrators who subsequently log in, and active administrators who refresh their browsers, see the new or updated message immediately; a commit isn’t necessary. This enables you to inform other administrators of an impending commit that might affect their configuration changes. Based on the commit time that your message specifies, the administrators can then decide whether to complete, save, or undo their changes.
(
Optional
) Select
Allow Do Not Display Again
(default is disabled) to give administrators the option to suppress a message of the day after the first login session. Each administrator can suppress messages only for his or her own login sessions. In the message of the day dialog, each message will have its own suppression option.
(
Optional
) Enter a header
Title
for the message of the day dialog (default is
Messageof the Day
).
Configure the header and footer banners.
A bright background color and contrasting text color can increase the likelihood that administrators will notice and read a banner. You can also use colors that correspond to classification levels in your organization.
Enter the
Header Banner
(up to 3,200 characters).
(
Optional
) Clear
Same Banner Header and Footer
(enabled by default) to use different header and footer banners.
Enter the
Footer Banner
(up to 3,200 characters) if the header and footer banners differ.
Click
OK
.
Replace the logos on the login page and in the header.
The maximum size for any logo image is 128KB. The supported file types are png and jpg. The firewall does not support image files that are interlaced, images that contain alpha channels, and gif file types because such files interfere with PDF generation.
Select
Device
Setup
Operations
and click
Custom Logos
in the Miscellaneous section.
Perform the following steps for both the
Login Screen
logo and the
Main UI
(header) logo:
Click upload
.
Select a logo image and click
Open
.
You can preview the image to see how PAN-OS will crop it to fit by clicking the magnifying glass icon.
Click
Close
.
Commit
your changes.
Verify that the banners, message of the day, and logos display as expected.
Log out to return to the login page, which displays the new logos you selected.
Enter your login credentials, review the banner, select
I Accept and Acknowledge the Statement Below
to enable the
Login
button, and then
Login
.
A dialog displays the message of the day. Messages that Palo Alto Networks embedded display on separate pages in the same dialog. To navigate the pages, click the right or left arrows along the sides of the dialog or click a page selector
at the bottom of the dialog.
(
Optional
) You can select
Do not show again
for the message you configured and for any messages that Palo Alto Networks embedded.
Close
the message of the day dialog to access the web interface.
Header and footer banners display in every web interface page with the text and colors that you configured. The new logo you selected for the web interface displays below the header banner.