I am investigating what would be involved in building an IMS application that 1) links a background image from a ArcGIS Image Server, and 2) is also able to track the tile downloads to a specific user passed in by the IMS application.

I am not familiar how the image servers work and what caching is involved and was hoping to get some insight.

Thanks for any help!

It would be easiest to link ArcGIS Image Server data via the OGC WMS interface (File - Link - Image, OGC WMS Servers, be sure to increase the default image size). That won't allow tracking downloaded tiles to individual users, however.

You can also write your own image server module for ArcGIS Image Server and link data using that module. That will allow you to do the tracking.

Thanks Adam for your help, I am currently going through the Manifold Power Pack source code to see what is involved in writing an image server module.