I was wondering if there was a way to add some content to the console screen displayed by VMA? I have added web administration to my VMA and would like to show a link to the start page. I happened upon a curious script file "/usr/sbin/vma-welcome-screen.sh" that looks promising:
#!/bin/bash
#
# Copyright (c) 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved subject to the terms of the
# vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) End User License Agreement.
#
# To customize the splashscreen, copy the contents of this file /etc/vmware/appliance-welcome-screen.sh and
# modify it according to the appliance.
VMA_PRODUCT="vSphere Management Assistant"
VMA_DOC_URL="http://www.vmware.com/go/vma"
VMA_PRODUCT_SHORTNAME="vMA"
VMA_VERSION=`grep ${VMA_PRODUCT_SHORTNAME} /etc/vma-release | grep BUILD | cut -d' ' -f2,2`
VMA_TITLE="${INIT_LOC}Welcome to ${BOLD_CYAN}${VMA_PRODUCT}${NORMAL} version ${VMA_VERSION}"
VMA_USER="vi-admin"
cat <<EOF
$VMA_TITLE
Your ${VMA_PRODUCT} is configured properly.
To get direct shell access, you may press Alt-F2 to switch to
virtual terminal where you may log in as ${BOLD_RED}${VMA_USER}${NORMAL}. The user
${BOLD_RED}${VMA_USER}${NORMAL} is the administrative user of vSphere Management Assistant.
To return to this screen press Alt-F1.
You can also ssh to ${BOLD_WHITE}${HOSTNAME}${NORMAL} or ${BOLD_WHITE}${IPADDR}${NORMAL}
and login as ${BOLD_RED}${VMA_USER}${NORMAL}.
For more information see the online documentation at
${VMA_DOC_URL}
EOF
Does anyone know if this is supposed to let me modify the VMA console screen? If not, does anyone know if it is possible to add content to the console screen by some other method?
