Thanks very much for the clues.   Yes, messages can be useful, but not when every user in the company reads them and might decide to open a trouble ticket for them. I tend to use Korn shell on our systems and here's the section where I flushed all of the messages and replaced them with a new one  (user input when the script begins.). echo -e "Collecting existing messages on $SH... " curl -k -u $uid:$pw https://$SH:8089/services/messages?output_mode=xml > /tmp/msg.out echo -e "Beginning cleanup of messages... " for MESSAGE in `egrep '<title>' /tmp/msg.out|grep -v messages|cut -d">" -f2|cut -d"<" -f1` do      echo -e " Cleanup of $MESSAGE..."      curl -k -u $uid:$pw -X "DELETE" https://$SH:8089/services/messages/$MESSAGE >/dev/null 2>&1 done echo -e " Now, sending your message to $SH " curl -k -u $uid:$pw https://$SH:8089/services/messages -d severity="$SEV" -d name=Custom_Message -d value="$msg" >/dev/null 2>&1 ... View more