How do I enable SNMP on Airport Extreme 802.11ac?

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Just picked AE Time Capsule 2TB - no SNMP is a huge disappoint. I don't post much at all, but hoping Apple reads this thread.

but hoping Apple reads this thread.

The chances of that happening are just slightly above zero.

Your chances will improve dramatically if you tell Apple directly.

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Agreed. I just called Apple Support - here is the response I recieved.

This feature is not removed from the Airport Extreme, but from the Airport Utility to stream line it.

They recommended to download an older version of the airport utility and administer my new AE with that.

They also suggested to send apple feedback from the apple site.

Fingers crossed...

Well - fired up Parallels and loaded airport utility 5.6.1, in my network I have a Airport Extreme (2nd Gen), Airport Express, and a new Airport Extreme Time Capsule (AC) I was able to access all three devices with the window version of AU, the big difference is that the Airport Extreme (2nd Gen) and Airport Express both had under Advanced the SNMP options, the new Time Capsule did not have the option for SNMP - but at least the advanced tab still had the logging information, etc. Just missing SNMP.

You'll probably find that only works for 2012 and earlier Airport Extremes, not the 2013 802.11ac model.

AFAIK the 2013 model has absolutely no support for SNMP at all, and can't be managed by the old 5.6 Airport Utility.

I could navigate around the new model just fine. Being I picked it up last night at Best Buy, I would hope this is a new version of the Extreme. ME177LL/A Model Number: A1470

... don't you all think it odd timing that airport utility purposely cripples itself by removing "easy" access to logging, log exports, wireless client lists, SNMP, and Syslog support while simultaneously being under attack for NSA spyware?

I do. I wonder what exactly Apple does NOT want somebody to easily see happening on their routers..?

You know, the more I think about this, the more I realize %99.999 of people with an APE don't need SNMP -- But what would be great is if they added 1 screen, and that is a a list of IP's and lan/wan traffic useage... Here is why.

The last 2 weeks, my internet has been HORRID. And by Horrid, here is an excerpt of pings to google I sent my ISP:

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=99 ttl=39 time=28306.299 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=100 ttl=39 time=27306.554 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=101 ttl=39 time=26305.892 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=102 ttl=39 time=25306.535 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=103 ttl=39 time=24305.826 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=104 ttl=39 time=23304.718 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=105 ttl=39 time=22310.954 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=106 ttl=39 time=21311.295 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=107 ttl=39 time=20311.108 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=108 ttl=39 time=19310.340 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=109 ttl=39 time=18309.250 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=110 ttl=39 time=17368.344 ms

64 bytes from 74.125.29.103: icmp_seq=111 ttl=39 time=16368.486 ms

After mutiple complaints to my ISP, they finally came back to me and said ... "The traffic is coming from within your network. You're upstream has been saturated for 2 weeks..."

... What? How is that possible? But, I'll took their word for it, and went around the house diasbling every networked device until it was magically fixed.

So, how did this happen? i ... freaking ... cloud ... Thats right, iCloud... My wife, bless her soul, turned on iCloud and photo stream and started syncing 50 Gigs of photos/videos to all her devices... And the first time failed, so she deleted everything and started over... So over the span of 2 weeks, 50gigs ... twice ... of images and videos have been uploading and dowloading between an iMac, iPad, and iPhone...

So, thanks Apple, for 2 weeks of ****. 1 small feature could of solved this headache for me. *sigh*

I like many others I purchased the new Airport Extreme AC to find that SNMP is no longer available. There isn't even a way to find out any details of what is connected to your network. I guess this will be the last Apple network device I will purchase. I still have an old Extreme N that works so maybe I will go back to having it as the main one and the new one to extend my network. I will hopefully at least be able to monitor usage.

By Apple "dumbing down" the Airport Utility as well as the feature set in the new Airport Extreme 6th gen. they can reduce their development and support cost. Instead of a full set of monitoring, measuring, and diagnosing tools - you are left with a "check engine" light - but no codes to diagnose.

But the good news is: historically the Airport hardware is very reliable.

I also use iNet, so discovering SNMP is no longer supported is very dissapointing.

Was it staill available with the fifth generation Airport Extreme base station?

This is a freakin joke Apple. NO SNMP, NO UPNP...... Taking this back...... What a huge disappointment!!

I just replaced my Apple Airport Extreme with a brand new NetGear R7000 running the latest DD-WRT ROM from Kong.

I honestly feel like I just replaced an overpriced gold-plated kid's trike with a high-performance race car. AMAZING, my MacBook Pro (2013) is now connecting at 1300 with a solid, stable connection and DD-WRT gives me about a THOUSAND times more functionality than the Apple 'trike'.

No regrets for dumping the Airport - NONE.

ZDeveloper wrote:

I just replaced my Apple Airport Extreme with a brand new NetGear R7000 running the latest DD-WRT ROM from Kong.

I honestly feel like I just replaced an overpriced gold-plated kid's trike with a high-performance race car. AMAZING, my MacBook Pro (2013) is now connecting at 1300 with a solid, stable connection and DD-WRT gives me about a THOUSAND times more functionality than the Apple 'trike'.

No regrets for dumping the Airport - NONE.

Thanks ZDeveloper, this is exactly what I've been looking for.

I've been holding out on upgrading to 802.11ac because I couldn't find a router to do it that also supported SNMP. This morning I went and picked up an R7000, flashed it with the latest DD-WRT and - really, without much fuss at all - it's working with gigabit WiFi with SNMP monitoring.

FYI, here's a quick test I did copying a 3.8GB file from a 2013 Mac Pro (GigE) to a 2013 rMBP (802.11ac @ ~3 meters from the R7000):

Took ~1minute @ ~60MB/sec. Not too shabby at all.

Apple, I've always loved Airports but the recent 'dumbing down' has seriously reduced the value proposition and judging by this thread, I'm not the only one.

Perhaps you should reconsider and start making it easier for us to monitor our networks instead of making it more difficult.