How to Configure Hostname, Clock and set banner on Cisco Router
How to Configure Hostname, Clock and set banner on Cisco Router
- Setting and verifying CLOCK TIME and DATE
Router> enable
Router# clock set 13:30:00 15 Apr 2014 (now the clock time and date is set according to UTC.)
For verifying
Router# show clock
13:31:30 UTC Tue 15 Apr 2014
As we have seen in the above time display, it displays the UTC time, which means we have to set the time zone for every country.
Router# configure terminal
Router(Config)# clock timezone EST 1 0 (Because EST (Eastern Time zone) for England is UTC+1:00, which means 1 is hour and 0 is minutes.)
Verifying Again:
Router(Config)# exit
Router# show clock
14:33:39 EST Tue 15 Apr 2014
- Setting and Verifying HOSTNAME of Router
To set the HOSTNAME of router, follow the procedure below:
Default HOSTNAME of router is ”Router”.
Router> enable
Router# configure terminal
Router(Config)# hostname Norman_Router
Norman_Router(Config)#
You can see the default HOSTNAME “Router” is replaced by “Norman_Router”, and hence it is verified.
- Setting and verifying the Banner
To Set the banner on the router, follow the procedure below.
Norman_Router> enable
Norman_Router# configure terminal
Norman_Router(Config)# banner motd #*** Welcome to Norman Router ***#
Where motd = message of the Day
Verifying the Banner
Norman_Router(Config)# exit
Norman_Router# exit
*** Welcome to Norman Router ***
Norman_Router>
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