Open Radar

 
Summary:
Caching Server is not very verbose and it is difficult to tell how “well” it works.

For organizations with large volumes of iOS / OS X devices and multiple Caching Servers, we need more information with regards to data. This should be configurable as an Alert, so an admin can be e-mailed daily on the Caching Servers statistics.

Information needed at minimum:
	1. Daily / Monthly usage statistics on how much data was downloaded from Apple’s App Store.
	2. Daily / Monthly usage statistics on how much data was served to client devices.
	3. Daily / Monthly usage statistics on how much data was served to other Caching Server.
	4. Daily / Monthly numbers on how many devices connected to the server, including unique devices.
	5. Daily / Monthly numbers on what kind of client devices/models connected to the server (via model identifiers).
	6. Daily / Monthly numbers on what iOS / OS X version the client devices are using.
	7a. Daily / Monthly numbers on how many total files were downloaded.
	7b. Daily / Monthly numbers on how many total downloads by each file type (Books, iOS Apps, Mac Apps, i/OS upgrades).
	8a. Daily / Monthly numbers on how many total unique file downloads.
	8b. Daily / Monthly numbers on how many total unique downloads by each file type (Books, iOS Apps, Mac Apps, i/OS upgrades).

Information that would be of additional value:
	1. Based on bandwidth currently being served, calculate bandwidth availability (a 1GB Cat 6 cable can only handle so much) and recommend to admin if an additional Caching Server needs to be brought up.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup Caching Server
2. Look at squiggly lines

Expected Results:
Much more info.

Actual Results:
Nothing currently available.

Regression:

Notes:

Your logs contain much of this information.
Please see my tool Cacher ( https://github.com/erikng/Cacher ) for an example of what I would like to see.