Managed Chromebook - How identify customers ? Asset-ID ? Policy?

Question

I have a private extension in the chrome web store. This extension is for users and devices who are managed via the Google Admin / GSuit system.

When in use, the extension contacts the GSuit / big data servers to log data. To tell my customers appart, I get them to type in a unique customer ID into each of their chromebooks, one ID per customer.

This was ok, but I would like to automate the system. Can I send down the customer ID instead of getting them to type it in ?

I thought of using the Asset-ID to identify the chromebook - but I cant find any way to extract the asset-id in my extension to allow the device to send it back to the server !

I thought of using one of the free text policy settings - but I can't get access to those in the app either !

I don't want to use email address as some of my smaller customers use gmail, so they would all get clumped together.

Answer 1

As an account administrator, you can first try retrieving a user using a userKey which can be the user's primary email address, the unique user id, or one of the user's alias email addresses. A successful Users:get request will return users resource including customerID.

Then, with the customerID, you may now get the assetID by retrieving all chrome devices for an account. Use GET request and include the authorization described in Authorize requests.

Here's the sample request:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/admin/directory/v1/customer/my_customer or customerId/
devices/chromeos?projection=basic or full&query=query
&orderBy=orderBy category&sortOrder=ascending or descending order
&pageToken=token for next results page
&maxResults=max number of results per page

Response for this request will include annotatedAssetId.

Also, View Chrome device information might also help.