Chrome Browser Management

• Printing browsers
• Moving browsers
• Updating browsers
• Get info about a browser
• Delete a browser

GAM 5.30 adds support for the new Chrome Browser Cloud Management API calls. The API allows you to print, move, update and delete enrolled browsers.

Printing browsers

Syntax

gam print browsers [query <query>] [projection BASIC|FULL] [todrive] [sort_headers] [fields <fields>]

Prints enrolled browsers. The optional argument query will limit results to matching browsers. Query format is described in Google's help articles. By default, GAM only prints basic information about the browsers. The optional argument projection allows selecting FULL which prints a lot more information about each browser including user profiles, policies and extension details. The optional argument todrive will upload the output to a Google Sheet. The optional argument fields specifies a comma separated list of fields you'd like to limit results to.

Example

This example prints all browsers.

gam print browsers

This example creates a Google Sheet of browsers running on Microsoft Windows

gam print browsers todrive query "os_platform:Windows"

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Moving browsers

Syntax

gam move browsers [ids <ids>] [query <query>] [file <file>] [csvfile <csvfile:columnName>] [orgunit <orgunit>] [batch_size <number>]

Moves the specified browsers from one OrgUnit in Google to another. The browsers must be specified with the ids, query, file or csvfile argument. The orgunit argument specifies the destination of the browsers. By default, GAM will attempt to move 600 browsers at a time which is the max allowed by the API. You can modify this number by specifying batch_size.

Example

This example moves all Windows browsers into their own Org Unit.

gam move browsers query "os_platform:Windows" orgunit /Chrome/Windows

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Updating browsers

Syntax

gam update browser <id> [user <user>] [location <location>] [notes <notes>] [assetid <assetid>]

Updates information about a Chrome browser. Information can be set for the user, location, notes and assetid fields.

Example

This example updates all four fields

gam update browser c052d4d7-90b1-407a-911f-c0d05ba0eaeb user jsmith@acme.com location "New York, NY" notes "Browser re-installed on 12/3/20" assetid ABC123

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Get info about a browser

Syntax

gam info browser <id> [FULL|BASIC] [fields <fields>]

shows information about a single browser based on the id specified. The optional argument projection retrieves a basic or full list of device attributes. Full includes details like browser profiles, policies and extensions. The optional fields parameter limits which fields are retrieved and printed.

Example

This example gets info about a browser

gam info browser c052d4d7-90b1-407a-911f-c0d05ba0eaeb

This example shows a LOT of information about the browser

gam info browser c052d4d7-90b1-407a-911f-c0d05ba0eaeb projection FULL

This example shows a limited amount of information

gam info browser c7cf1d21-50af-4419-bf75-67731423a259 fields osPlatform,lastPolicyFetchTime,osPlatformVersion,lastDeviceUser,orgUnitPath

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Delete a browser

Syntax

gam delete browser <id>

Deletes the given browser by id. The browser will be removed from Google's admin console and no longer sync policy or reporting. However existing policies will still be applied until the device registration and dm tokens are removed.

Example

This example deletes the device.

gam delete browser c7cf1d21-50af-4419-bf75-67731423a259

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