iPad Network, ASM, Lightspeed, Cache server

[aspeak]

Hello,

 

I have been given the envious task of re configuring our apple network to run through a caching server...

 

Currently our server is a standalone box of no use. I have set up sharing and caching on this server. I am also able to ping the iPads from the server as they are all in the same IP range and the server has a static IP

 

We use ASM and Lightspeed to create and distribute profiles and Apps and manage the network.

 

Could anyone please advise me how I can re-configure the network to be able to use the server for caching apps and iOS updates

 

I have attached an image of the network as it stands at the moment.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Andy

[RLR]

The caching server just needs to be attached to the network. You can then configure it further to only cache from specific IPs if you want. If they're all on the same IP range it should be fairly straight forward. What are you using as your caching server?

 

The caching server will tell apple servers that you're available to cache content on your public IP address and apple will register this. The devices will then look for data on the caching server first, if they can't find what they're looking for it will go to Apple.

[aspeak]

Hi RLR,

 

Thanks for your response.

 

We have a mac server which we have configured as a cache server.

 

The cache shows as 143gb of something, but I do not know apple very well so I do not know what it has cached and whether this is being fed out to the rest of the iPads

 

Andy

[RLR]

It caches what ever the iPads request from apple. You can't see what it caches. You just have to assume that it's working. You can see caching data information in the Activity Monitor on the Mac Server. There is a cache section at the top right which will display the amount of data servered to various things.

[Brimstone]

This will take you through all the necessary info...

 

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl9388ba1b/mac

[oododkodkdo]

Hello,

 

I have been given the envious task of re configuring our apple network to run through a caching server...

 

Currently our server is a standalone box of no use. I have set up sharing and caching on this server. I am also able to ping the iPads from the server as they are all in the same IP range and the server has a static IP

 

We use ASM and Lightspeed to create and distribute profiles and Apps and manage the network.

 

Could anyone please advise me how I can re-configure the network to be able to use the server for caching apps and iOS updates

 

I have attached an image of the network as it stands at the moment.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.[ATTACH=CONFIG]54946[/ATTACH]

 

Thanks

 

Andy

 

What did you use to make that diagram?

[aspeak]

The diagram was created with draw.io. link below

 

https://www.draw.io/