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Expand-Source

SYNOPSIS​

Expand a list of source ids.

SYNTAX​

Expand-Source
	[-InputObject] <Object[]>
	[<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION​

Expand the list of input objects and return the source using the following logic:

Look for a source.id property 2. Look for a deviceId property 3. Look for a id property 4. Check if the given is a string or int and is integer like

EXAMPLES​

EXAMPLE 1​

Expand-Source 12345

Normalize a list of ids

EXAMPLE 2​

"12345", "56789" | Expand-Source

Normalize a list of ids

EXAMPLE 3​

Get-OperationCollection -PageSize 1000 | Expand-Source | Select-Object -Unique

Get a unique list of device ids from a list of operations

PARAMETERS​

-InputObject​

List of objects which can either be operations, alarms, measurements or managed objects

Type: Object[]
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: True
Position: 1
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: True (ByValue)
Accept wildcard characters: False

CommonParameters​

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

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