Asgard - PC Agent

A service for Windows machines to report their state back to Asgard so we can show room occupancy on our signage.

This is a dotnet worker service that runs in the background of a lab PC and then connects to the MQTT broker, it sends 1 ping message every 1 minute with the following information to a topic of asgard/pc/room/desk:

{
  "Name": "1A-G6-WINDOWS",
  "IPv4Address": "10.123.123.123",
  "MacAddress": "ABCDABCDABCD",
  "OS": "WINDOWS",
  "SessionTimeSeconds": 86400,
  "DeepFreezeStatus": "Frozen",
  "MqttTopic": "asgard/pc/1A/G6"
}

Building an MSI File Manually

You first need to install the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects 2022 extension inside of Visual Studio 2022. This will let you use all the MSI tooling.

Then you should check your build target is set to Release and not debug!

Then press Build on the top bar, then Clean Solution... And then Build Solution.

Then you should have the following .msi file built asgard-pc-agent\asgard-pc-agent.setup\Release\asgard-pc-agent.setup.msi.

Rename this from asgard-pc-agent.setup.msi to asgard-pc-agent-v.0.1.0-setup.msi (edit as appropriate).

Create this an a release in GitHub and you can now deploy this to the Lab PCs via Deep Freeze.