Easter Egg: BIG-IP Advisory Banner

Let's take a minute and step away from the technical stuff and look at something a little more entertaining. In 11.6 a GUI enhancement was added to display an Advisory Bar at the top and bottom pa...
Published Oct 05, 2015
Version 1.0
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In case you want to check via iControl REST: 

curl -svk -u admin:admin "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/sys/db?options=ui.advisory.*&\$select=name,value,valueRange,defaultValue" | python -m json.tool

{
    "items": [
        {
            "defaultValue": "green",
            "name": "ui.advisory.color",
            "value": "red",
            "valueRange": "blue green orange red"
        },
        {
            "defaultValue": "false",
            "name": "ui.advisory.enabled",
            "value": "true",
            "valueRange": "false true"
        },
        {
            "defaultValue": "This is a system advisory message.",
            "name": "ui.advisory.text",
            "value": "The system must be configured via iControl REST API only!",
            "valueRange": "string"
        }
    ],
    "kind": "tm:sys:db:dbcollectionstate",
    "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/sys/db?$select=name%2Cvalue%2CvalueRange%2CdefaultValue&options=ui.advisory.*&ver=13.1.0.6"
}

To modify a property you may use i.e. the following: 

curl -svk -u admin:admin "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/sys/db/ui.advisory.color" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X PATCH -d '{"value": "blue"}'  | python -m json.tool