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Open-Website

SYNOPSIS​

Open a browser to the cumulocity website

SYNTAX​

Device (Default)​

Open-Website
	[[-Device] <Object[]>]
	[[-Page] <String>]
	[-Browser <String>]
	[<CommonParameters>]

Application​

Open-Website
	[[-Application] <String>]
	[-Browser <String>]
	[<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION​

Opens the default web browser to the Cumulocity application or directly to a device page in the Device Management application

EXAMPLES​

EXAMPLE 1​

Open-Website -Application "cockpit"

Open the cockpit application

EXAMPLE 2​

Open-Website -Device myDevice01

Open the devicemanagement to the device (default) control page for myDevice01

EXAMPLE 3​

Open-Website -Device myDevice01 -Page alarms

Open the devicemanagement to the device alarm page for myDevice01

PARAMETERS​

-Application​

Application to open

Type: String
Parameter Sets: Application
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 1
Default value: Cockpit
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Device​

Name of the device to open in devicemanagement. Only the first matching device will be used to open the c8y website.

Type: Object[]
Parameter Sets: Device
Aliases:

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

-Page​

Device page to open

Type: String
Parameter Sets: Device
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 2
Default value: Control
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Browser​

Browser to use to open the webpage

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: Chrome
Accept pipeline input: False
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.

INPUTS​

OUTPUTS​

NOTES​

When running on Linux, it relies on xdg-open. If it is not found, then only the URL will be printed to the console. The user can then try to open the URL by clicking on the link if they are using a modern terminal which supports url links.