Deploying AcuSensor for ASP .NET Core

🔍 AcuSensor Network Prerequisites

AcuSensor makes use of the AcuSensor Bridge. To learn more about the AcuSensor Bridge, refer to the AcuSensor Bridge document.

Deploying AcuSensor for ASP .NET Core websites

First, you need to download the AcuSensor agent for your Target.

The AcuSensor agent will need to be deployed to your web application. This section describes how to deploy AcuSensor to an ASP.NET Core web application.

Prepare the .NET Core AcuSensor

Create a folder which will host your AcuSensor files; for this example, we will assume the folder is C:\acusensor
Right-click on your downloaded AcuSensor ZIP file

Click on the Extract All… option

Select a destination folder and click the Extract button
Navigate to the destination folder and enter the .NET Core subfolder
Select all the items inside the subfolder, right-click on them and select Copy

Navigate to the C:\acusensor folder, right-click in the window and select the Paste option

Deploying into a Kestrel .NET Core website

Navigate to your web application root folder

Create a new sitelauncher.bat file inside your web application root folder with the following contents:

SET SENSOR_SETTINGS_PATH=C:/acusensor/settings.ini

SET DOTNET_STARTUP_HOOKS=C:/acusensor/InvictiSensor.dll
axexample-dotnetcore.exe --urls http://0.0.0.0:80

…assuming that the executable file for your web application is axexample-dotnetcore.exe
From the command line, navigate to your web application root folder and launch your web application

Deploying into a Kestrel .NET Core website on Linux

Navigate to your web application root folder
Create a new sitelauncher.sh file inside your web application root folder with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash

export DOTNET_STARTUP_HOOKS="/acusensor/InvictiSensor.dll"

export SENSOR_SETTINGS_PATH="/acusensor/settings.ini"

dotnet ./axexample-dotnetcore.dll --urls "http://0.0.0.0:80"

…assuming that the executable file for your web application is axexample-dotnetcore.dll
From the command line, navigate to your web application root folder and launch your web application