Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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FIGURE 223 Server Management Console, BannerMessage tab
Creating or editing the login banner
1. Click the BannerMessage tab.
2. Type a new banner message or edit the existing message.
To disable the banner message, delete the existing message (set the message to a zero-length
string).
3. Click Submit.
Secure communication settings (HTTP or HTTPS)
Using the Security tab of the Server Management Console, you can change the configuration
settings to connect to and communicate with switches using HTTP or using HTTP over SSL (HTTPS).
The configuration setting applies to the entire Fabric Manager server and client, and not to
selected switches. By default, Fabric Manager connects to all switches using HTTP.
If you select HTTPS, then all southbound (server-to-switch) HTTP-based operations initiated by the
server are secured by connecting to switches using HTTPS. The Fabric Manager client will use
HTTPS to connect to WebTools and to switches.
If your vendor sites (such as firmware repository URLS) are HTTPS-enabled, communications to
those sites will also use HTTPS.
Select HTTPS only if your SAN meets the following requirements:
• All switches in the SAN are capable of supporting HTTPS.