Planning the installation

About ContentReporter

The ContentReporter application enables you to analyze content usage, performance, and infrastructure load across your entire content delivery network. The ContentReporter server collects and processes log files from NetCache appliances, directories, and FTP servers throughout a network, and outputs the results of the log file processing to your enterprise database. You log into ContentReporter with a Web browser (the ContentReporter user interface) on your network, and schedule and generate customized reports on the log file data in your database.

Major components of ContentReporter

The following table describes the major components of ContentReporter.

Component	Description
ContentReporter server	The ContentReporter server is the program that receives and fulfills HTTP requests from client browsers on the same or other computers. The computer on which you install ContentReporter is the ContentReporter server machine.
ContentReporter Web-based user interface	The ContentReporter user interface is a Web browser with HTTP access to the ContentReporter server. You make requests to, and receive fulfilled requests from, the ContentReporter server through a Web browser.
Database	Your enterprise database is a crucial part of the ContentReporter application. The ContentReporter server stores its settings and all aggregated log file records for each cache device in the database. All reports in ContentReporter are based on the records for each cache in the database.
Cache	In ContentReporter, a "cache" represents a particular device that generates the log files that the ContentReporter server collects and processes. ContentReporter can collect and process NetCache^TM appliance log files, Web server log files, and streaming server log files.

Illustration of ContentReporter

The following diagram illustrates the major components of ContentReporter.