You’ve probably all heard it before; “communication is key”. This is one of those posts and quick tips, by leveraging the many tools IT organizations have to communicate change plans for any kind of planned or unplanned maintenance, your systems (not just vCenter) have internal users that rely on this. We have messages that are communicated via email, intranets, social media or even ITSM tools.
vCenter will display banner messages by default whenever there is an expiring license or account that is nearing expiration. You do have an option to create a customer MOTD.
From the inventory view with your vCenter selected >> Configure >> Message of the Day>> Click ‘Edit’ on the far right.
Populate the message you want to communicate
Click OK and you will find it now listed in the MOTD section
If you log out of vCenter and log back in, the following banner will appear.
There are no time settings when to expire, so it will require manually going in and clearing the message and saving.
Your internal customers should be thankful for being able to communicate changes.
