Customizing the banner for your organization

You can customize the banner to display information about your organization's Application Security website either when customers sign in, or when they switch between views (Dashboard, Applications, Reports, and so on).

Each time you upgrade your Application Security instance, you must recreate the banner.

To create a custom sign in experience for your users:

  1. Go to the <ssc_deploy_dir>/WEB-INF/lib/ directory.
  2. Extract the contents of the ssc-htmlui-<version>.jar file into a new directory (referred to as <new_directory> in the remaining steps).

  3. Go to the <new_directory>/META-INF/resources/html/login/ directory.

  4. Open the login.html file in a text editor.

  5. Uncomment the text <!--<center><font color="red">Add your custom banner here</font></center>-->, and then specify the HTML elements to set the look, feel, and content of the message displayed where indicated.

    Space limitations restrict the message text to a single line. Additional lines interfere with the user interface. The following example adds a banner with red text to the top center of the Application Security website upon login:

    <center><font color=red size=10>Message_text</font></center>

  6. Change the name of the ssc-htmlui-<version>.jar file to ssc-htmlui-<version>.jar.orig.

  7. Create a new archive named ssc-htmlui-<version>.jar that contains all of the files under <new_directory>.

    Do not include <new_directory> itself in the new archive.

  8. Restart the Application Security server.

To create a message banner displayed each time a user switches views:

  1. Go to the <ssc_deploy_dir>/WEB-INF/lib/ directory.
  2. Extract the contents of the ssc-htmlui-<version>.jar file into a new directory (referred to as <new_directory> in the remaining steps).

  3. Go to the <new_directory>/META-INF/resources/html/ssc/ directory.

  4. Open the index.html file in a text editor, and then go to line 41.

  5. Uncomment the text <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; ">Add your custom banner here</span></div>, and then specify the HTML elements to set the look, feel, and content of the message displayed where indicated.

    The following example adds a banner with red text to the top center of the Application Security website:

    <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; "> Message text x</span></div>

    Space limitations restrict the message text to a single line. Additional lines interfere with user interface.

  6. Change the name of the ssc-htmlui-<version>.jar file to ssc-htmlui-<version>.jar.orig.

  7. Create a new archive named ssc-htmlui-<version>.jar that contains all of the files and directories under <new_directory>.

    Do not include <new_directory> itself in the new archive.

  8. Restart the Application Security server.

See Also

Adding a Fortify Insight link to the dashboard

Creating a system-wide banner