Referred by the iRule group - Logging

If he's not I am... I've got a ticket in with support as Colin recommended, so you may not want to spend a long time on this. Additonally, I've just downloaded the iControl SDK and have yet to evaluate it's contents. With any luck one of these avenues will solve my problem, but at any rate here's what I'm looking to get done:

 

 

I'm interested in putting together some historical data with regards to connections, times, IP's, etc. and can't find a good way to retreive that data in the web admin portion of the BIG-IP systems. I'm wondering a couple things:

 

 

1. How long does the OS hold historical data?

 

2. What are my options for retreving and formatting the stored data?

 

3. Do I need to setup a syslog server and iRules to log these type of requests or is something built into the OS?

 

 

For instance, here's a couple queries I'd like to have results for:

 

 

1. IPaddy; Connection time; Total HTTPS requests; Session Time

 

 

2. Total connections for time period; connections per day for time period; IP addresses for time period

 

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.