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I have built a zero-touch kickstart image of ESXi 6.7 for deployment of several hundred servers in a remote warehouse. I would like to get a popup or alert type box to display on the DCUI screen so the the deployers understand that the deployment is done and so I can display some information to help with quality control. I believe I have seen something like this in the past and know it has to be possible, but have not found anything on it yet.

EDIT: I would like to try to do it similarly to the way ESXi says when the host is installed (below), but I want to be able to run it from a script at will.

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Either change the contents of the file /etc/vmware/welcome manually, or you can do it with

esxcli system welcomemsg set -m="your message"
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  • Thanks for the idea - I am hoping to not make a permanent change the the message, but rather have the kickstart script open a dialog box one time (much like the installation complete dialog box, just with custom values on firstboot)
    – notsodev
    Jun 19, 2018 at 15:32

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