MOTD on cli

[agracey]

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It'd be great for an admin to be able to send messages to users when they perform actions. Things like scheduled downtime or maintenance windows.

Who is the functionality for? Who will use this feature?

admins and end users

How often will this functionality be used by the user? How often will they use this feature?

daily? depends on when you have updates

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I don't think this would interfere with anything?

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[heyjcollins]

Thanks @agracey - Is this request trying to solve the problem of app developers/operators being caught unawares when the platform is being updated. That would be solved if there were some way to proactively communicate anticipated downtime/maintenance windows via some message block that's inserted into the output from each CLI command?

Could you confirm and/or describe the problem that you're trying to address in a bit more detail?

And if you had a solution in mind, what would be the workflow for the admin? What would the UX be for app developers & operators?

[agracey]

The problem that I'm trying to solve is that when we are planning upgrades or in the middle of an outage we need a better experience than random failures. Due to the way we are using the platform, there's not a good way to notify users outside of the platform itself. I believe this would be useful to any group acting as a cloud provider with CF.

What I'd like to see as an admin would be an additional cli command (and it's respective API endpoint) that would let me set the current MOTD.

cf motd set "<String>" [ -t Timeout ]

along with

cf motd clear, cf motd get

For the users, I'd love for this string to get printed when a user performs a cf api, cf login, cf target, or cf push

Does that clarify?

[agracey]

I'd also like for this functionality be available in Stratos as well but that'd be for a different ticket in that project once the API is build.

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