Downloading the .NET Core agent

The latest version of the dot net core agent can be downloaded in two archive formats to support the native capabilities of Linux (.tar.gz) and Windows (.zip). It is especially relevant when working with containers.

All the agents from the links below are provided as self-contained applications, if you need a platform dependent version, please contact Support.

When using the Alpine version of the agent, please make sure your command are referring to the “right” executable (without file extension): SL.DotNet instead of SL.DotNet.exe or SL.DotNet.dll.

  • If you have a limitation accessing the endpoint agents.sealights.co and are limited to your specific servers DNS, then you can also get the agent from https://{company}.sealights.co/dotnetcore/latest/sealights-dotnet-agent-{os}-self-contained.{archive-extension} and replace {company} with your company dns prefix

  • The Alpine distribution uses musl as the standard C library implementation, while most other Linux distributions use glibc as their standard C library implementation [Source]. It means the library compiled with glibc depends on a different set of standard libraries, leading to a separate artifact for Alpine distributions. The code base remains the same; only the build configuration is different.

Sample Scripts for download

Download the agent for Windows - ZIP archive

$global:ProgressPreference = "SilentlyContinue" iwr -OutFile sealights-dotnet-agent.zip -UseBasicParsing -Uri https://agents.sealights.co/dotnetcore/latest/sealights-dotnet-agent-windows-self-contained.zip Expand-Archive .\sealights-dotnet-agent.zip -DestinationPath sl-dotnet-agent -Force Write-Output "[Sealights] .NetCore Agent version is: $(Get-Content .\sl-dotnet-agent\version.txt)"

Download the agent for Linux - TAR GZ archive

wget -nv -O sealights-dotnet-agent-linux.tar.gz https://agents.sealights.co/dotnetcore/latest/sealights-dotnet-agent-linux-self-contained.tar.gz mkdir sl-dotnet-agent && tar -xzf ./sealights-dotnet-agent-linux.tar.gz --directory ./sl-dotnet-agent echo "[Sealights] .NetCore Agent version is: `cat ./sl-dotnet-agent/version.txt`"

Download the agent for Alpine distribution - TAR GZ archive

wget -nv -O sealights-dotnet-agent-alpine.tar.gz https://agents.sealights.co/dotnetcore/latest/sealights-dotnet-agent-alpine-self-contained.tar.gz mkdir sl-dotnet-agent && tar -xzf ./sealights-dotnet-agent-alpine.tar.gz --directory ./sl-dotnet-agent echo "[Sealights] .NetCore (Alpine) Agent version is: `cat ./sl-dotnet-agent/version.txt`"

Security

If you download and copy the agent manually, its files might get blocked by Windows OS.

You have two options to unblock them, to unblock them:

  • Right-click both the SL.DotNet.exe and SL.DotNet.dll files and check the Unblock check box in the security section.

  • You can also use the following PowerShell command: Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\Sealights\agent\' -Recurse | Unblock-File ( assuming they were unzipped in the same C:\Sealights\agent folder)