ChromeSal

ChromeSal is an extension for Chrome OS that allows Managed Chrome devices to report to a Sal server.

The built extension can be found on the Chrome Web Store.

Requirements

• The Chrome OS device must be enterprise enrolled.
• The extension must be installed via Google Workspace policy

The extension has been restricted to Chrome OS devices only, and will not function if the above two conditions are not met. This extension relies on APIs that are only available to enterprise enrolled devices, so does not function when installed manually.

Making Custom Extension Versions

If you want to deploy your own version of ChromeSal you will need to upload it to the Chrome Web Store for your organization. You might want to do this to run a pre-release version, or to create a custom version seperate from the official ChromeSal extension.

• Download the ChromeSal repository
• Go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/developer/dashboard, pay the $5 fee, and Add new item
• Upload the zip
• Upload the active_128.png icon and Sal.png screenshot
• Change the language, set visibility to Private for your organization, and Publish changes
• Install with the new extension ID for your organization and configure

Configuration

{
  "serverurl": {
    "Value": "https://sal.yourcompany.com"
  },

  "key": {
    "Value": "yourreallyreallyreallylongkey"
  }
}

You must apply the above configuration file using Google admin.

Contributing

If you wish to contribute to ChromeSal, please file an issue or (even better) a pull request to fix things. If you wish to talk about your feature before implementing, you will find the maintainers in #sal on the macadmins.org Slack.

If you wish to run the code locally (via Chrome's 'unpacked extension' feature), you can place a file called settings.json in the same directory as the source code, with the following contents:

{
  "debug": false,
  "serverurl": "https://sal.company.com",
  "key": "yourreallylongkey"
}

If you wish to test on a non-enterprise enrolled / non-chrome OS device, set debug to true. Note that this will produce the serial number of ABC123, as the device's Cloud ID is not avaialble to non-enterprise enrolled devices.

Credits

https://github.com/pugetive/plist_parser

Icon: Monitor by Astonish from the Noun Project