Provision the APM Dotnet Agent
Provision the APM Dotnet Agent in Windows
On successfully downloading the APM Dotnet agent, you can provision the APM Dotnet agent.
- Connect to the host where the application is installed and copy the APM Dotnet agent software file that you downloaded to any preferred location.
 - Unzip the 
apm-dotnet-agent-installer-<version>.zipfile to a destination directory.The destination directory is the directory in which the APM Dotnet agent is provisioned. For example:
C:\tracer-homeTake note of this value since it's used in the next step: Deploy the APM Dotnet Agent.
 - Check the subdirectories created in the destination directory.
                        The following subdirectories and files should exist:
- AdditionalDeps
 - net
 - netfx
 - store
 - win-x64
 - win-x86
 - OpenTelemetry.DotNet.Auto.psm1
 
 
Provision the APM Dotnet Agent in Linux
On successfully downloading the APM Dotnet agent, you can provision the APM Dotnet agent.
- Connect to the host where the application is installed and copy the APM Dotnet agent software file that you downloaded to any preferred location.
 - Extract the downloaded file to a destination directory. 
                        
You can use the
The destination directory is the directory in which the APM Dotnet Agent is provisioned. For example:tar xvfzcommand or your preferred method.~/tracer-homeTake note of the destination directory value since it's used during the APM Dotnet agent deployment.
 - Check the subdirectories created in the destination directory.
                        The following subdirectories should exist:
- AdditionalDeps
 - linux-x64 (linux-musl-x64, linux-arm64, or linux-musl-arm64)
 - net
 - store