CHANGELOG

Piped input is not supported for

c8y microservices serviceusers get
c8y alarms subscribe
c8y events subscribe
c8y inventory subscribe
c8y measurements subscribe
c8y operations subscribe
c8y realtime subscribe
c8y realtime subscribeAll

Failing tests

None :)

TODO (next branch)

Download commands?:

Should configuration with external URLs be downloaded? Can it be trusted? There is currently a workaround

  c8y firmware versions get --id 1 | c8y api

  However you can control the output file dynamically. i.e. if you get a list of devices and pipe it, then it will all be overwritten in the same output file.

  c8y firmware versions list --firmware 1234 | c8y api --outputFile myfile.json

  * What name to use?
      * Template string?
      * Firmware name and version?
      * Actual binary name from the url?
          * i.e. if c8y binary, then lookup the binary managed object for the details?
          * If external, then use the basename of the url path (converting unsupported chars)

c8y firmware versions download --outputFile "%s"
- c8y binaries download --autoName
c8y firmware patches download
c8y software versions download
c8y configuration download

Docs

Confirmation
Session encryption
Partial setting of sessions (i.e. bootstrap credentials with only the username/password set)
Workers
Views
Activity Log
Filtering
Configuration (defaults, environment variables, arguments)
Common Parameters
Error handling
Aliases

Naming Consistency

Bugs

updating mode does not take effect immediately if environment variables are already set.
- The setting read from the profile is overridden by locally assigned values
```
C8Y_SETTINGS_MODE_ENABLECREATE=false
C8Y_SETTINGS_MODE_ENABLEDELETE=false
C8Y_SETTINGS_MODE_ENABLEUPDATE=false
```

~~not known~~

Commands

Delete activity log?
- c8y activity log delete
- c8y activity log deleteAll

New Functions

Add option to print out request and response as markdown
Support mapping piped data to multiple arguments

Allow template variable for GETs to also combine data to the response (i.e. )

c8y operations list | c8y devices get --template "{ operation: input.value }"

c8y settings update: option to write to the global sessions file instead of the profile
how to get the global session file? add to settings list
add min/max/average/count to progress bar (and output)
Add graph to show response times: https://github.com/guptarohit/asciigraph

Add following template variables

Tenant id
Base url (without tenant id, just C8Y_URL)
Base tenant url (with tenant id, where to get this from?)
or _.ExpandUrl('/inventory/binaries/12345')

{
    "c8y_DownloadConfigFile": {
        "type": "EXAMPLE_CONFIG",
        "url": "https://t12345.example.c8y.com/inventory/binaries/12345"
    },
    "description": "Send configuration snapshot custom-config of configuration type EXAMPLE_CONFIG to device demo01_IDKS"
}

{
    "c8y_DownloadConfigFile": {
        "type": "EXAMPLE_CONFIG",
        "url": _.tenantUrl() + "/inventory/binaries/12345"
    },
    "description": "Send configuration snapshot custom-config of configuration type EXAMPLE_CONFIG to device demo01_IDKS"
}

Refactoring

Move dataview to configuration
Return an error if the --output view value is not valid

Improvements

Use wide-format / column padding for completion description to better align extra information

Completions

Unassign child device (list child assets)
Unassign child addition (list child assets)
Unassign child asset (list child assets)

Packaging

None

Unreleased

Released

v2.0.0

Added --examples option to only show the help text of a function
Add option to disable reading from stdin (piped data) (--nullInput / -c)
Fixed --filter bug when the given property does not exist, i.e. --filter "nonexistent_prop like *. Non-existent property warning messages will no longer be logged
Fixed bug where timestamps used in request bodies were incorrectly encoded, resulting in the + characters being encoded as %2B.
Added new cli utility command c8y util repeat to make it easier to loop over piped data

Example

Combine two calls to iterator over 3 devices twice. This can then be used to input into other c8y commands
```
$ c8y util repeat 2 | c8y util repeat 3 --format "device%s_%s"
```
Output
```
device_1
device_2
device_3
device_1
device_2
device_3
```
Added commands to manage smart groups
- c8y smartgroups list Get a list of smart groups
- c8y smartgroups get Get a smart group
- c8y smartgroups update Update a smart group
- c8y smartgroups delete Delete a smart group
- c8y smartgroups get --id 1234 | c8y devices list Get a smart group and then get the list of devices matching its query
Added additional command under the bulk operations to get the list of related bulk operations which accepts piped input. c8y bulkoperations list | c8y bulkoperations listOperations

Setting a session includes the following new environment variables

C8Y_HEADER Authorization header (including header name), i.e. Authorization: {auth_method} {value}
C8Y_HEADER_AUTHORIZATION Authorization header value (without the header name), i.e. {auth_method} {value}

This allows easier use of other 3rd party tools to send Cumulocity API requests

Shell

curl -H "$C8Y_HEADER" $C8Y_HOST/inventory/managedObjects

# Or using a helper function
c8ycurl () 
{ 
    curl --silent -H "$C8Y_HEADER" ${C8Y_HOST%%/}/$@
}
c8ycurl /inventory/managedObjects

PowerShell

Invoke-RestMethod -Headers @{ Authorization = $env:C8Y_HEADER_AUTHORIZATION } -Uri "$env:C8Y_HOST/inventory/managedObjects"

# or using ps default values
$PSDefaultParameterValues["Invoke-RestMethod:Headers"] = @{ Authorization = $env:C8Y_HEADER_AUTHORIZATION }
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$env:C8Y_HOST/inventory/managedObjects"

Added pipeline support in c8y inventory find on the query parameter and added a string format support via queryTemplate parameter.

Example: Find all managed objects where the .name field includes "example". The name is piped in enabling it to be provided from a file
```
echo "example" | c8y inventory find --queryTemplate "name eq '*%s*'"

# or from a list of names
cat mylonglistOfNames.txt | c8y inventory find --queryTemplate "name eq '*%s*'"
```
Added command to find managed objects by text which also accepts piped input
```
echo "mytext" | c8y inventory findByText
```

Added new filter operators notmatch and notlike to do inverted regex and wildcard matches respectively

c8y devices list --filter "type notlike *myvalue*"
c8y devices list --filter "type notmatch myvalue?"

c8y identity create|get|delete type is set to c8y_Serial by default
c8y identity create added template support
Merging zsh, bash and fish shells into one docker image called c8y-shell. ZSH is launched by default but other shells can be used by launching them manually inside the same container. It makes it easier to try out different shells.
Support $C8Y_HOME and $C8Y_SESSION_HOME variables in settings

Support dotnotation in --data

c8y devices update --data "c8y_RequiredAvailability.responseInterval=240"

=> 
{
    "c8y_RequiredAvailability": {
        "responseInterval": 240
    }
}

Table view columns min, max and padding can be controlled via settings
Bearer authentication header is used when using OAUTH2 Internal authentication instead of cookies
c8y api
- If contentType is not json, don't try to convert it to json

Add fixed delay before processing job use case: Wait for operations and set apply operation transitions (with 1s delay) PENDING => EXECUTING EXECUTING => SUCCESSFUL

c8y operations subscribe --device 454373 --duration 1000 --actionTypes CREATE --actionTypes UPDATE --filter "status != SUCCESSFUL" | c8y operations update --delayBefore 1000 --template "{ status: if input.value.status == 'PENDING' then 'EXECUTING' else 'SUCCESSFUL' }"

New command c8y operations wait --device 12345 to wait for a command to be finished
Activity logger command
```
c8y activitylog list --dateFrom -1h
```
Removed Get-SupportedOperation command. The supported operations can be read from the managed object using a select statement
```
Get-Device -Select "c8y_SupportedOperations**"
```
Refactored project structure to improve maintainability
Changed default directory for sessions from .cumulocity to .cumulocity/sessions
Fixed inventory roles commands
- c8y users getCurrentUserInventoryRoleCollection => c8y users listInventoryRoles
- c8y users getCurrentUserInventoryRole => c8y users getInventoryRole
Show message to user if deleting on terminal (i.e. DELETED NO Content, some kind of feedback so the user knows that something has happened) - and for commands using --noAccept
Added completions for template parameters
- template
- processingMode
Removed Test-ClientPassphrase as encryption is handled when logging in.
Add session creator which adds pre-configured templates (i.e. dev, qual, prod) with sensible settings (additional sessionDefault flag)
Add session editor (--add property/value to file) (complete values?)
Updated to go 1.16
session details are printed out when switching to it
Option to not store the password in the session. It should force the user to use their password each time. User can choose to store password and/or cookies
Hostname is also hidden when using sensitive logging mode is activated
Add confirmation prompts to c8y binary
Display session information after selecting a session
Custom --logMessage or -LogMessage common parameters which adds a custom string to the activity log (if enabled). It helps the user put a more meaningful entry related to the command.
Added links to native go command in PowerShell help in the .LINK (related links) section

Get-TenantVersion returns an object instead of a single value.

{
    "category": "system",
    "key": "version",
    "value": "1006.6.0"
}

Session folder is created automatically if it does not yet exist when creating a new session
--outputFile appends a new line character to the output when the Content-Type header contains "json"
Removed TimeoutSec to Timeout
--timeout has been changed to accept seconds not milliseconds. However you can enter "0.001" if you really want millisecond accuracy (not sure why though)
Added support for flag value completions (i.e. )
```
c8y operations list --status <TAB><TAB>
```
Adding short options for various global options
- -p => --pageSize
- -t => --withTotalPages
- -r => --raw
Added colorize and pretty print options to output formatting
- pretty print when using streaming (-c or --compress)
- colorize json and json line output (--noColor or -M (for monochromatic output)). Output is colorized by default when writing to Terminal, but it can be disabled using --noColor or -M
--select parameter now supports advanced property selection using dot notation, wildcards (including globstar)
Added new --noAccept global parameter to ignore the Accept header. This usually only affects PUT and POST requests.
Fixed #43. New-ServiceUser now accepts more than 1 role
Added Expand-DeviceGroup cmdlet
Adding following template variables
- time.now
- time.nowNano
- input.index (current iteration when using pipelines)
TODO: Create custom ConvertFrom-Json
- Replace ConvertFrom-Json -Depth calls in code as the default is already high enough (1024). This simplifies the code as the check for powershell version can be ignored
- add options to strip out cumulocity noise (i.e. additionParents etc.)
TODO: Make -InformationVariable or at least ErrorVariable work when using IncludeAll
Optimized inventory queries when using the includeAll parameter on inventory managed objects
```
$filter=_id gt '{lastId}' $orderby=_id asc
```
New cmdlet ConvertTo-NestedJson which is a proxy function of ConvertTo-Json where depth is set to 10 by default
Removed --format as select and csv can be used for the same effect (and more).
```
id=$( c8y devices list --select id --output csv | head -1 )
```

PSc8y

New alias to the c8y binary. This makes it easier to run the binary directly without the powershell wrapper.

When using the c8y binary directly, the parameter names are slightly different, and should start with "--" and not the normalized powershell "-".
```
c8y devices list --pageSize 1

c8y help
```
[Get-MeasurementCollection / c8y measurements list]
- Renamed csv parameter to csvFormat to avoid conflict with new global csv (client side) parameter
- Renamed excel parameter to excelFormat to be consistent with the renamed csvFormat parameter

Added support for passing non-pipeline parameters via the object. The id field will be read from the object. #42

$Group = New-TestDeviceGroup
$Device = New-TestDevice
Add-DeviceToGroup -Group $Group -NewChildDevice $Device

Breaking changes

PowerShell

Renamed all user group related cmdlets from "Group" to "UserGroup"

From	New Name
New-Group	New-UserGroup
Get-Group	Get-UserGroup
Get-GroupByName	Get-UserGroupByName
Get-GroupCollection	Get-UserGroupCollection
Get-GroupMembershipCollection	Get-UserGroupMembershipCollection
New-TestGroup	New-TestUserGroup
Update-Group	Update-UserGroup
Remove-Group	Remove-UserGroup

Shell

c8y rest --ignoreAcceptHeader has been removed as there is a global --noAccept header
realtime subscribe: Remove shorthand -c variant of --channel as it conflicts with the new --compress, -c global flag.
Get-ManagedObjectCollect renamed Device parameter to Ids and removed device lookup as the parameter is related to a generic managed object and not a device.
Renamed json output parameters
- --pretty has been renamed to --compress (or -c) to be inline with popular json utility jq.
- Invoke-ClientRequest has both -Pretty and -Compress options - renamed Pretty to Compress

New Features

Activity log

Records c8y commands (c8y binary arguments only) and HTTP request/response meta information
Enable the logs for specific sessions or have a global setting
Disable activity log for single commands by using noLog parameter
```
c8y devices create --name "myDeviceName" --noLog
```

Example

File: c8y.activitylog.2021.02.11.json

{"time":"2021-02-11T07:07:29.7405634Z","ctx":"gOBHCQDe","type":"command","arguments":["devices","create","--name=myDevice01"]}
{"time":"2021-02-11T07:07:29.9139964Z","ctx":"gOBHCQDe","type":"request","method":"POST","host":"c8y.example.com","path":"/inventory/managedObjects","query":"","accept":"application/json","processingMode":"","statusCode":201,"responseTimeMS":125,"responseSelf":"https://c8y.example.com/inventory/managedObjects/367930"}
{"time":"2021-02-11T07:08:10.8468454Z","ctx":"gCVnTfZt","type":"command","arguments":["devices","update","--id","367930","--newName","my new device"]}
{"time":"2021-02-11T07:08:11.0067532Z","ctx":"gCVnTfZt","type":"request","method":"PUT","host":"c8y.example.com","path":"/inventory/managedObjects/367930","query":"","accept":"application/json","processingMode":"","statusCode":200,"responseTimeMS":146,"responseSelf":"https://c8y.example.com/inventory/managedObjects/367930"}
{"time":"2021-02-11T07:08:26.9742641Z","ctx":"qFRWdUsT","type":"command","arguments":["devices","delete","--id=367930"]}
{"time":"2021-02-11T07:08:27.1066364Z","ctx":"qFRWdUsT","type":"request","method":"DELETE","host":"c8y.example.com","path":"/inventory/managedObjects/367930","query":"","accept":"application/json","processingMode":"","statusCode":204,"responseTimeMS":122,"responseSelf":""}

Settings

The activity log settings can be set for individual c8y sessions or globally in your settings.json file.

{
    "settings": {
        "activityLog": {
            "enabled": true,
            // defaults to current working directory if not specified
            "path": "/home/myuser/.c8y-activitylogs/",
            "methodFilter": "GET PUT POST DELETE"
        }
    }
}

Bash/zsh improvements

Pipeline support

Added pipelines to most commands

c8y alarms --device 12345 --status ACTIVE | c8y alarms update --status CLEARED

c8y devices list | c8y operations list

When doing batch size of 1, only set the exit code to the last value
Maximum jobs limit to protect against unexpected updates
New global parameters
- --compact or -c compact the json removing any indentation
- --stream will automatically convert a json array to individual json lines (objects)
```
[
    { "id": "1"},
    { "id": "2"}
]
```
  Will be transformed individually stream json objects. Each object will be written to stdout as it is processed.
```
{ "id": "1"}
{ "id": "2"}
```

Templates

When using piped data the data is stored for use in a template variable input.value.

Example: Add a fragment based on the type name

seq 1 | c8y devices create --data "type=myValue" \
    | c8y devices update --template "{ [input.value.type]: {} }"

Example: Add a type to devices which have a specific fragment and also mark when it was updated

c8y devices list --query "has(c8y_myCustomType)" \
    | c8y devices update --template "{ type: 'c8y_Linux', c8y_jobInfo: { job: input.index, lastUpdated: time.now } }"

Progress bar (alpha)

--progress bar can be used when performing operations in a pipeline.
```
cat myList.txt | c8y inventory get --progress
```

PSc8y improvements

The Data parameter now accepts a path object (System.IO.FileSystemInfo). Previously the user would have to use the .Name or .FullName of the object.

Example
```
$file = New-TemporaryFile
'{"name": "myName in a file"}' | Out-File $file
New-ManagedObject -Data $file
```
Wait-Operation Fixed warning message format when operation fails. Id was being show in the incorrect position

v1.11.1

Bugfixes

Update-Tenant: Domain is no longer a mandatory/required parameter

v1.11.0

New Features

Exit codes are not set to the HTTP exit codes for commands which send a REST request. The https status codes are mapped to exit codes between 0 - 128 to ensure compatibility to different operating systems and applications.

The full error codes can be found on the new error handling concept page. However a few include:
- 0 => 0 (REST request was ok)
- 1 => 401 (Unauthorized)
- 3 => 403 (Forbidden)
- 4 => 404 (Not found)
- 9 => 409 (Conflict/duplicate)
- 22 => 422 (Unprocessable entity / invalid request)
- 50 => 500 (Internal server error)

Added Remove-ApplicationBinary command

Example: Remove all application binaries related to an application

PowerShell

Remove-ApplicationBinary -Application 12345 -BinaryId 9876

# Or remove all application binaries (except the active one) for an application
Get-ApplicationBinaryCollection -Id 12345 | Remove-ApplicationBinary -Application 12345

Bash/zsh

c8y applications deleteApplicationBinary --application 12345 --binaryId 9876

New Features (PSc8y)

Added support for saving meta information about the requests to the in-built PowerShell InformationVariable common parameter

Documentation - Request metrics:

Example: Save request to a variable without sending the request

New-Device -Name my-test -WhatIf -InformationVariable requestInfo -InformationAction SilentlyContinue
$requestInfo

Output

What If: Sending [POST] request to [https://example123.my-c8y.com/inventory/managedObjects]

Headers:
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic {base64 tenant/username:password}
Content-Type: application/json
User-Agent: go-client
X-Application: go-client

Body:
{
"c8y_IsDevice": {},
"name": "my-test"
}

Example: Get the response time of a request

New-Device -Name my-test -InformationVariable requestInfo -InformationAction SilentlyContinue
Write-Host ("Response took {0}" -f $requestInfo.MessageData.responseTime)

Output

Response took 172ms

Support for ErrorVariable common variable to save error output to a variable

Example: Save error output to a variable

Get-ManagedObject -Id 0 -ErrorVariable "c8yError" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) {
    $MainError = $c8yError[-1]
    Write-Error "Something went wrong. details=$MainError"
}

Importing PSc8y will enforce Unicode (UTF-8) encoding on the console if the console is not already using UTF-8 (mostly affecting Windows as it does not use UTF-8 by default unlike MacOS and Linux)
- User will be informed how to add the setting to the PowerShell profile
- Enforcement of UTF-8 encoding can be disabled by setting
```
$env:C8Y_DISABLE_ENFORCE_ENCODING = $true
```

Minor Changes

Updated PowerShell version from 7.0 to 7.1.1 inside docker image c8y-pwsh. This fixed a bug when using Foreach-Object -Parallel which would re-import modules instead of re-using it within each run space.
PSc8y will enforce PowerShell encoding to UTF8 to prevent encoding issues when sending data to the c8y go binary. The console encoding will be changed when importing PSc8y. UTF8 is the only text encoding supported. This mainly effects Windows, as MacOS and Linux use UTF8 encoding on the console by default.
Added a global --noColor to the c8y binary to remove console colours from the log messages to make it easier to parse entries. By default PowerShell uses this option when calling the c8y binary as PowerShell handling the coloured log output itself.

Bug fixes

New-Device fixed bug which prevent the command from creating the managed object
- Name is no longer mandatory and it does not accepted piped input
Changed the processing of standard output and error from the c8y binary to prevent read deadlocks when being called from PowerShell module PSc8y. #39

v1.10.0

Breaking Changes

Expand-Device no longer fetches the device managed object when given the id when being called from a function that does not makes use of a "Force" parameter. If you would like the old functionality, then add the new "-Fetch" parameter when calling Expand-Device.

By default if Expand-Device is called from an interactive function, then the managed object will be looked up in order to provide helpful information to the user in the confirmation prompt. Additionally users writing modules, can force fetching of the device when given an id by using the new -Fetch parameter.

The change enable a significant reduction in API calls as shown below in the following examples:

Comparison of total API calls per command to previous PSc8y version

Previous version: PSc8y=1.9.1

The following examples show how many api calls are made to Cumulocity.

# API calls: 1 x GET    (previously 3 x GET!)
Get-Device 1234

# API calls: 2 x GET    (previously 5 x GET!)
Get-Device 1234 | Get-Device

# API calls: 1 x GET and 1 x PUT    (previously 4 x GET and 1 x PUT)
Get-Device 1234 | Update-Device

# API calls: 1 x POST   (previously 3 x GET and 1 x POST)
Add-DeviceToGroup -Group 11111 -NewChildDevice 222222 -ProcessingMode QUIESCENT -Force

Expand-Device Usage Expand-Device was created in order to normalize the input of devices given by the user. Since PSc8y accepts devices either by id, name, object or piped objects, it can make it difficult to handle each of the input types in each function.

# file: my-script.ps1
Param(
    [Parameter(
        Mandatory = $true,
        Position = 0,
        ValueFromPipeline = $true,
        ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true
    )]
    [object[]] $Device = ""
)

foreach ($iDevice in (PSc8y\Expand-Device $Device)) {
    Write-Host ("Dummy api call with device id: /inventory/managedObject/{0}" -f $iDevice.id)
}

By writing it like this the user can call the function in the following ways with the same code.

# Pass array item
./my-script.ps1 -Device 12345

# array of items mixing ids with names
./my-script.ps1 -Device "myDeviceName", 1234

# using pipelines from other PSc8y cmdlets
Get-DeviceCollection | ./my-script.ps1

# By hashtable with id property (using positional argument)
./my-script.ps1 @{id="12345"}, @{id="6789"}

Now let's say that you wanted to add some logic which required the full device managed object from the server, and not just the id and name fields. This can be achieved by adding the -Fetch parameter to the Expand-Device cmdlet call.

The differences in the output can be shown in the small example

# This will not fetch the device (as the device already exists)
PS> 1234 | Expand-Device

id   name
---- ----
1234 [id=1234]

Agent but using -Fetch.

# Using -Fetch will return the whole device managed object from Cumulocity (1 x GET request)
PS> 1234 | Expand-Device -Fetch

additionParents : @{references=System.Object[]; self=https://example.cumulocity.com/inventory/managedObjects/1234/additionParents}
assetParents    : @{references=System.Object[]; self=https://example.cumulocity.com/inventory/managedObjects/1234/assetParents}
c8y_IsDevice    : 
childAdditions  : @{references=System.Object[]; self=https://example.cumulocity.com/inventory/managedObjects/1234/childAdditions}
childAssets     : @{references=System.Object[]; self=https://example.cumulocity.com/inventory/managedObjects/1234/childAssets}
childDevices    : @{references=System.Object[]; self=https://example.cumulocity.com/inventory/managedObjects/1234/childDevices}
creationTime    : 1/19/2021 7:49:33 PM
deviceParents   : @{references=System.Object[]; self=https://example.cumulocity.com/inventory/managedObjects/1234/deviceParents}
id              : 1234
lastUpdated     : 1/19/2021 8:52:29 PM
name            : myNewName
owner           : user@example.com
self            : https://example.cumulocity.com/inventory/managedObjects/3882

New Features

Added commands to manage managed object child additions

PowerShell
- Get-ChildAdditionCollection
- New-ChildAddition
- Remove-ChildAddition
Bash/zsh
- c8y inventoryReferences listChildAdditions
- c8y inventoryReferences createChildAddition
- c8y inventoryReferences deleteChildAddition

Performance improvements

Reduced number of API calls within PSc8y and c8y binary by skipping lookups when an ID is given by the user. Previously PSc8y and c8y were sending two API calls to the server in order to normalize the request by retrieving additional information and potential shown to the user. Since this is currently not used, it has been removed.

Bug fixes

Set-Session no longer causes the terminal bell/chime when using backspace or arrow keys.

v1.9.1

Bug fixes

Get-C8ySessionProperty selects first matching Session parameter in the call stack if multiple matches are found

v1.9.0

New features

Added bulk operations commands

PowerShell
- Get-BulkOperationCollection
- Get-BulkOperation
- New-BulkOperation
- Update-BulkOperation
- Remove-BulkOperation
Bash/zsh
- c8y bulkOperations list
- c8y bulkOperations create
- c8y bulkOperations get
- c8y bulkOperations update
- c8y bulkOperations delete
Get-OperationCollection supports bulkOperationId parameter to return operations related to a specific bulk operation id

Added helpers function to make creating custom functions easier and which behave like native PSc8y cmdlets.

Get-ClientCommonParameters - Get common PSc8y parameters so they can be added to external using PowerShell's DynamicParam block
Add-ClientResponseType - Add a type to a list of devices if the -Raw parameter is not being used

Example

The following function get a list of software items stored as managed objects in Cumulocity.

The cmdlet only needs to define one parameter $Name for the custom logic. The following parameters are inherited via the Get-ClientCommonParameters call in the DynamicParam block

Pagination parameters: PageSize, WithTotalPages, TotalPages, CurrentPage, IncludeAll
Pagination parameters: Session
General parameters: TimeoutSec, Raw, OutputFile

Function Get-SoftwareCollection {
    [cmdletbinding(
        SupportsShouldProcess = $true,
        ConfirmImpact = "None"
    )]
    Param(
        # Software name
        [string]
        $Name = "*"
    )
    # Inherit common parameters from PSc8y module
    DynamicParam { PSc8y\Get-ClientCommonParameters -Type "Collection" }

    Process {
        $Query = "type eq 'c8y_Software' and name eq '{0}'" -f $Name
        $null = $PSBoundParameters.Remove("Name")

        Find-ManagedObjectCollection -Query $Query @PSBoundParameters `
            | Select-Object `
            | Add-ClientResponseType -Type "application/vnd.com.nsn.cumulocity.customSoftware+json"
    }
}

Minor improvements

"owner" is field is left untouched in the -Data parameter allowing the user to change it if required.
```
Update-ManagedObject -Id 12345 -Data @{owner="myuser"}
```

Cumulocity API error messages are prefixed with "Server error." to make it more clear that the error is due to an API call and not the client.

PS /workspaces/go-c8y-cli> Get-AuditRecord 12345                        

WARNING: c8y returned a non-zero exit code. code=1
Write-Error: /workspaces/go-c8y-cli/tools/PSc8y/dist/PSc8y/PSc8y.psm1:3657:13
Line |
3657 |              Invoke-ClientCommand `
    |              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    | Server error. general/internalError

PS /workspaces/go-c8y-cli> Get-Alarm 12345                              


WARNING: c8y returned a non-zero exit code. code=1
Write-Error: /workspaces/go-c8y-cli/tools/PSc8y/dist/PSc8y/PSc8y.psm1:2742:13
Line |
2742 |              Invoke-ClientCommand `
    |              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    | Server error. alarm/Not Found: Finding alarm from database failed : No alarm for gid '12345'!

PSc8y command automatically detect the -WhatIf and -Force parameters from any parent commands. This reduces the amount of boilerplate code.

Example: Custom command to send a restart operation

Function New-MyCustomRestartOperation {
    [cmdletbinding(
        SupportsShouldProcess = $true,
        ConfirmImpact = "High"
    )]
    Param(
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $true,
            Position = 0
        )]
        [object[]] $Device,

        [switch] $Force
    )

    Process {
        foreach ($iDevice in (Expand-Device $Device)) {
            New-Operation `
                -Device $iDevice `
                -Description "Restart device" `
                -Data @{ c8y_Restart = @{}}
        }
    }
}

Normally when using New-Operation within your command, you need to pass the WhatIf and Force parameter values like so:

New-Operation `
    -Device $iDevice `
    -Data @{ c8y_Restart = @{}} `
    -WhatIf:$WhatIfPreference `
    -Force:$Force

However now all PSc8y commands will automatically inherit these values.

New-MyCustomOperation -Device 12345 -WhatIf
New-MyCustomOperation -Device 12345 -Force

The variable inheritance can be disabled by setting the following environment variable

$env:C8Y_DISABLE_INHERITANCE = $true

pwsh docker image improvements
- Enabled pwsh tab completion by default
- Added vim text editor
Get-DeviceCollection supports OrderBy parameter to sort

Example: Get a list of devices sorting by name in descending order

PowerShell
```
Get-DeviceCollection -OrderBy "name desc"
```
Bash/zsh
```
c8y devices list --orderBy "name desc"
```
Test cmdlets supports the -Time parameter to be able to control the timestamp of created entity. By default it will use "0s" (i.e. now).
- New-TestAlarm
- New-TestEvent
- New-TestMeasurement
Get-SessionHomePath Added public PowerShell cmdlet to retrieve the path where the session are stored
New cmdlet Register-ClientArgumentCompleter to enable other modules to add argument completion to PSc8y parameters like Session and Template
- Note: -Force needs to be used if your command uses Dynamic Parameters

v1.8.0

Get-Session uses a new c8y session get to retrieve information about the current session
Fixed bug when using the -Session on PUT and POST commands which resulted in an error being displayed even though the request would be successful
Expand-Device supports piping of alarms, events, measurements and operations

Added -ProcessingMode parameter to all commands that use DELETE, PUT and POST requests.

New-ManagedObject -Name myObject -ProcessingMode TRANSIENT
New-ManagedObject -Name myObject -ProcessingMode QUIESCENT
New-ManagedObject -Name myObject -ProcessingMode PERSISTENT
New-ManagedObject -Name myObject -ProcessingMode CEP

Set-session automatically selects a session if only one matching session is found rather than prompting the user for the selection

source fragment is removed when being passed via file to the Data parameter in all create and update commands

// myEvent.json
{
    "source": {
        "id": "99999",
        "self": "https:/..../event/events/99999"
    },
    "type": "myExample1",

}

When executing the following command:

PSc8y\New-Event -Device 12345 -Data myEvent.json

The source id fragment will be replaced entirely by the new source as specified by the Device parameter

// myEvent.json
{
    "source": {
        "id": "12345",
    },
    "type": "myExample1",

}

Added logout user command to invalidate current user token

Bash/zsh
```
c8y users logout
```
PowerShell
```
Invoke-UserLogout
```
Fixed binary upload bugs with both New-EventBinary and Update-EventBinary which resulted in multipart form data being included in the binary information

v1.7.3

Fixed publishing bug on docker images

v1.7.2

Fixed publishing bug on docker images

v1.7.1

Fixed publishing bug on docker images

v1.7.0

New-Microservice requiredRoles are now set when passing the cumulocity.json manifest file to the -File parameter

Added New-ServiceUser and Get-ServiceUser to create and get a service user that can be used for automation purposes

New-ServiceUser -Name "myapp1" -Roles "ROLE_INVENTORY_READ" -Tenants "t12345"

Get-ServiceUser -Name "myapp1"

Fixed target tenant confirmation when using the -Session parameter on PUT/POST commands
Invoke-ClientRequest: Added support for -Template and -TemplateVars parameters
Removed -Depth from internal ConvertFrom-Json calls so that the PSc8y is compatible with PowerShell 5.1
Fixed shallow json conversion bug when using using internal calls to ConvertFrom-Json and ConvertTo-Json. Max depth of 100 is used on supported PowerShell versions
Test-ClientPassphrase cmdlet to check if passphrase is missing or not. Cmdlet is called automatically when importing the module or calling set-session
New-User added support for template and templateVars parameters
Dry/WhatIf headers are shown in a sorted alphabetically by header name
Adding Two-Factor-Authentication support
- TOTP (only)
Added OAUTH_INTERNAL support

Encrypting sensitive session information

{
    "credential": {
        "cookies": {
            "0": "{encrypted}abefabefabefabefabefabefabefabefabefabef",
            "1": "{encrypted}abefabefabefabefabefabefabefabefabefabef",
        }
    },
    "password": "{encrypted}abefabefabefabefabefabefabefabefabefabef"
}

Added encrypt/decrypt commands

$encryptedText=$( c8y sessions encryptText --text "Hello World" )

c8y sessions decryptText --text "$encryptedText"

Fixed broken doc link

v1.6.0

Breaking Changes

Added support for disabling create/update/delete command individually to prevent accidental data loss. See the session concept documentation for full details.
- create/update/delete command are disabled by default! They must be enabled otherwise the commands will return an error. Commands can be enabled/disabled from the session properties
- commands can be temporarily enabled/disabled in the session via environment variables without persisting them in the session settings
- CI mode which enables all commands via one environment variable

Features (PSc8y and c8y)

Custom rest requests no longer required the Data or File parameter for POST or PUT requests. If neither is provided, then the request is sent without a body

PowerShell
```
Invoke-ClientRequest -Uri "/service/exampleMS/endpoint" -Method "POST"
```
Bash/zsh
```
c8y rest POST /service/exampleMS/endpoint
```
Added command to read the current configuration settings as json

PowerShell
```
Get-ClientSetting
```
Bash/zsh
```
c8y settings list
```

Added support for templates and template variables for all POST and PUT commands. See the templates concept documentation for full details.

jsonnet templates can be used to create json data

File: custom.device.jsonnet

{
    name: "my device",
    type: var("type", "defaultType"),
    cpuThreshold: rand.int,
    c8y_IsDevice: {},
}

Usage: Bash/zsh

c8y inventory create \
    --template ./examples/templates/device.jsonnet \
    --templateVars "type=myCustomType1" \
    --dry

Usage: PowerShell

New-ManagedObject `
    -Template ./examples/templates/measurement.jsonnet `
    -TemplateVars "type=myCustomType1" `
    -WhatIf

Output

These command would produce the following body which would be sent to Cumulocity.

{
    "name": "my device",
    "type": "myCustomType1",
    "c8y_IsDevice": {},
    "cpuThreshold": 88,
}

To help with the development of templates, there is a command which evaluates a template and prints the output to the console.

Bash/zsh

c8y template execute --template ./template.jsonnet

PowerShell

Invoke-Template -Template ./template.jsonnet

Added support for setting additional properties when uploading a binary file

PowerShell

New-Binary -File "myfile.json" -Data @{ c8y_Global = @{}; type = "c8y_upload" }

Bash/zsh

c8y binaries create --file "myfile.json" --data "c8y_Global={},type=c8y_upload"

The Data parameter now supports a json file path to make it easier to upload complex json structures.

Example: Create a new managed object from a json file

./myfile.json

{
    "name": "server-01",
    "type": "linux",
    "c8y_SoftwareList": [
        { "name": "app1", "version": "1.0.0", "url": ""},
        { "name": "app2", "version": "9", "url": ""},
        { "name": "app3 test", "version": "1.1.1", "url": ""}
    ]
}

Powershell

New-ManagedObject -Data ./myfile.json

Bash / zsh

c8y inventory create --data ./myfile.json

PSc8y (PowerShell) minor improvements / fixes

Fixed logic when removing username information from the current session path when using the hide sensitive information option. Affects MacOS and Linux
Added Pipeline support to following cmdlets
- New-TestAlarm
- New-TestEvent
- New-TestMeasurement (Confirm impact now set to High)
- New-TestOperation
- New-TestUser
- New-TestGroup
- New-TestDevice
- New-TestAgent
- New-ExternalID
New-Microservice
- Added -Key parameter to allow the user to set a custom value
- Changed the default value of the key property from {name}-microservice-key to {name} so it matched the default name used by the Cumulocity Java SDK for microservices

v1.5.2

Bugfixes

Fixed tagging bug which results in the docker images not being tagged with the version number (only the "latest" images were being published)

v1.5.1

Bugfixes

Fixed bug when using set-session "my filter" in bash and zsh profiles which resulted in an "unknown flag" error

v1.5.0

New Features (PSc8y and c8y)

Added extend paging support and includeAll
- includeAll - Fetch all results. The cli tool will iterate through each of the results and pass them through as they come in
- currentPage - Current page / result set to return
- totalPages - Fetch the given number of pages
See the paging docs for more details and examples.

PSc8y (PowerShell)

Minor changes

Renamed ConvertFrom-Base64ToUtf8 to ConvertFrom-Base64String
Added ConvertTo-Base64String
Renamed Get-CurrentTenantApplications to Get-CurrentTenantApplicationCollection
Renamed Watch-NotificationChannels to Watch-NotificationChannel
Watch-* cmdlets now support piping results as soon as they are received rather than waiting for the duration expire before passing the results back. This enables more complex scenarios, and ad hoc event processing tasks

Examples

Update each alarm which comes in with the severity CRITICAL. Update-Alarm will be run as soon as a result is received, and not just after the 60 second duration of Watch-Alarm.
```
Watch-Alarm -Device 12345 -DurationSec 60 | Update-Alarm -Severity CRITICAL -Force
```
Complex example

Subscribe to realtime alarm notification for a device, and update the alarm severity to CRITICAL if the alarm is active and was first created more than 1 day ago.
```
Watch-Alarm -Device 12345 -DurationSec 600 | Foreach-object {
    $alarm = $_
    $daysOld = ($alarm.time - $alarm.creationTime).TotalDays

    if ($alarm.status -eq "ACTIVE" -and $daysOld -gt 1) {
        $alarm | Update-Alarm -Severity CRITICAL -Force
    }
}
```
set-session: Search now ignores https:// or http:// in the url field, as this information is mostly not important when searching for a template. However the full url will still be visible for the user.

Bug fixes

Get-TenantOptionForCategory: Removed table view for the tenant option collection output which was causing view problems. Closes #24
```
Get-TenantOptionForCategory -Category application -Verbose

# outputs
default.application
-------------------
1
```
Fixed parsing of search names with space in their names leading to incorrect application being selected. Closes #22

v1.4.1

Bug fixes

set-session: Fixed bug when setting a session when using the pre-filter which resulted in the wrong session being activated

v1.4.0

PSc8y (PowerShell)

Renamed cmdlets

New-ChildAssetReference to Add-AssetToGroup
Remove-ChildAssetReference to Remove-AssetFromGroup
New-ChildDeviceReference to Add-ChildDeviceToDevice
Remove-ChildDeviceReference to Remove-ChildDeviceFromDevice

New cmdlets

Add-DeviceToGroup
Add-ChildGroupToGroup
Remove-DeviceFromGroup

Changes

New-TestDevice has changed to require confirmation before creating the device
Fixed Get-Measurement alias m in PSc8y

c8y (binary)

Removed duplicate command c8y devices find as query functionality is provided by c8y devices list --query "name eq 'test*'"
Added common options and array items processing to the following commands
- c8y agents list
- c8y devices list
- c8y devices listDeviceGroups
Added common options to (i.e. --outputFile, --pretty)
- c8y microservices create
- c8y microservices createHostedApplication
Added bash profile script to add support for aliases
Added guide to creating custom bash aliases
Removed unreferenced commands
c8y session list Renamed --filter to --sessionFilter to avoid conflict with the global --filter option

Docker

Added docker images to make it easier to try out c8y
- ghcr.io/reubenmiller/c8y-bash
- ghcr.io/reubenmiller/c8y-zsh
- ghcr.io/reubenmiller/c8y-pwsh

Docs

Fixed line wrapping within code blocks. Now horizontal scroll bars are show to preserve the line spacing.
Added github project link

Build

Improved reliability of realtime api tests
c8y (golang) binaries are now statically linked (using CGO_ENABLED=0) to make them more portable
Added docker images for pwsh, bash and zsh with c8y already configured

v1.3.0

PSc8y (PowerShell)

Using a relative date/timestamp of "30" no longer causes a panic when using DateFrom and DateTo parameters
Removed unsupported query parameters from Remove-MeasurementCollection
- valueFragmentType
- valueFragmentSeries
Removed deprecated commands Remove-AuditRecordCollection
Fixed New-Microservice cmdlet and updated the examples. Resolves #14

Set-Session supports improved filtering

Search terms are split on whitespace, and each search term is matched individually against the following session properties
- index
- filename (basename only)
- host
- tenant
- username

The session can be pre-filtered. Use full when you have a lot of sessions

# Powershell
Set-Session "customer", "dev"

# Example custom function to set a session for a specific tenant group
# This can be stored in your powershell profile
Function Set-CustomerXSession { Set-Session "customer" }

# Bash
c8y session list --filter "customer dev"

Build Improvements

Updated Pester module to v5
Updated go-c8y dependency to 0.8.0
Enabled ci test runner
Added parallel powershell tests execution to reduce test execution times
Updated golang dependencies

v1.2.0

PSc8y (PowerShell)

Added Powershell documentation to online docs
Removed conflicting cmdlets to make it more obvious which one is correct to use
- Deleted Invoke-CustomRestMethod. Use Invoke-ClientRequest instead.
- Deleted Invoke-CustomRestRequest. Use Invoke-ClientRequest instead.
- Moved Invoke-ClientCommand to a private command as it is only used internally by other PSc8y cmdlets
Added additional parameters to Invoke-ClientRequest
- -Headers. Add a hashtable of key/values which will be added to headers of the REST request
- -ContentType. Add the Content-Type header to the REST request.
- -Accept. Add the Accept header to the REST request.
- -IgnoreAcceptHeader. Ignore the accept header when sending the request.

Files

CHANGELOG.md

Latest commit

History

CHANGELOG.md

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Docs

Naming Consistency

Bugs

Commands

New Functions

Refactoring

Improvements

Completions

Packaging

Unreleased

Released

v2.0.0

PSc8y

Breaking changes

PowerShell

Shell

New Features

Activity log

Bash/zsh improvements

PSc8y improvements

v1.11.1

Bugfixes

v1.11.0

New Features

New Features (PSc8y)

Minor Changes

Bug fixes

v1.10.0

Breaking Changes

New Features

Performance improvements

Bug fixes

v1.9.1

Bug fixes

v1.9.0

New features

Minor improvements

v1.8.0

v1.7.3

v1.7.2

v1.7.1

v1.7.0

v1.6.0

Breaking Changes

Features (PSc8y and c8y)

PSc8y (PowerShell) minor improvements / fixes

v1.5.2

Bugfixes

v1.5.1

Bugfixes

v1.5.0

New Features (PSc8y and c8y)

PSc8y (PowerShell)

Minor changes

Bug fixes

v1.4.1

Bug fixes

v1.4.0

PSc8y (PowerShell)

c8y (binary)

Docker

Docs

Build

v1.3.0

v1.2.0