How do I enable SNMP on Airport Extreme 802.11ac?

JFTR:

I own an older TC, but it should run a recent firmware.

It does have SNMP:

$ snmpget -c public -v2c 192.168.1.71 sysDescr.0

SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Apple AirPort - Apple Inc., 2006-2012. All rights Reserved.

$

But there is no easy way to configure the box. I wanted to change the NTP server to my own, and ended in:

- use AirPortUtility

- mark the TC

- go to "Ablage -> Konfigurationsdatei exportieren" (you see, I'm on a german locale)

- you'll get a .baseconfig

- open the .baseconfig in your favourite editor

No, what does all that staff means in there?

This will help to understand the keywords: http://aldentech.wnyric.org/webshare/mkempste/AirPort%20Utility%20copy.app/Conte nts/Resources/English.lproj/AirPortSettings.strings

- save the .baseconfig

- then, simply import the .baseconfig

Thank you apple for hiding these features! Not.

Hope that helps,

Rainer

I too and wishing I had SNMP..

I ran this https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snmp-test-utility/id441785756?mt=12 and discoverd that my 2 Extreme 5ht Gens have snmp enabled, my 2 gen 2 expresses to also.. But my 4th Gen Extreme does not support it..

No clue why its the only one..

Only thing is I cant change any strings, its just "on"

This is really a bad direction apple is taking. Apple used to be great at supporting most standards and this is just so disappointing. Almost close to selling my Airport extreme ac which appears to get overload at times but I cannot check because SNMP is not enable. BAD APPLE

Update for you all. After several weeks of owning the Nighthawk AC1900 Dual Band WiFi Gigabit Router (R7000) and having flashed it to the latest DD-WRT (Kong build), I can still confidently say this is the MOST rock solid router I have ever used. I still have absolutely no regrets for having ditched the airport. I relegated my old Airport Extreme to being the 'media LAN' router (no wireless, it just pushes large media files around between wired computers now on a separate subnet).

All of my wireless clients (mac/PC/linux) connect and get awesome throughput. My 2013 MacBook actually connects and delivers FASTER throughput with DD-WRT + R7000 than with the Apple Airport Extreme that you would think it would be tuned for.

I also really LOVE the amazing feature-rich design of DD-WRT. I (pro-actively) have it power-cycling every Sunday at midnight, though without any real cause, and it just does it. It has built-in support for dynamic IP providers, and it just does it, ... on and on, just incredible!

If you are thinking about ditching the Apple, I would strongly suggest doing so. Apple Airport has been buggy, slow, and feature-crippled. I cannot imagine buying another Apple networking product again.

(still love my MacBook though...! : - )

I hear you about 'complex', but to the contrary I find it's feature-rich no-nonsense interface refreshing. I am no longer looking a oversized 'pretty gray boxes with rounded edges' that take up half my screen, as with the ka-ka Airport Utility. But I also feel comfortable in Terminal...

To your broken DDNS configuration, I found this on the web, not sure if it'll help, but it sounds like you cannot use certain characters without breaking the underlying Linux configuration file. You are encouraged to escape any such characters to avoid doing so. See here (http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DDNS_-_How_to_setup_Custom_DDNS_settings_us ing_embedded_inadyn_-_HOWTO) and below for the fix:

Internaly, DD-WRT uses inadyn and creates in the directory /tmp/ddns a configuration file from your settings in the web form. To check whether the expected configuration file is created from your settings in the web form, you can inspect this file as follows:

ssh or telnet to the router

navigate to /tmp/ddns: cd /tmp/ddns

inspect file inadyn.conf: cat /tmp/ddns/inadyn.conf

the inadyn cache file in DD-WRT is located /tmp/ddns/inadyn_ip.cache

If you are not familiar with the format of the inadyn.conf file, you can just call /usr/sbin/inadyn from the command line and the allowed parameters are shown.

Put "--verbose 5" in the additional ddns options to get some helpful information.

Honestly, how long would you have sat there with a broken Airport waiting/hoping for Apple to fix the issue? Weeks? Months? Ever..? With DD-WRT and the hardware of your choice, you can google and fix it yourself in less than 5 minutes... I'm just saying.

I just received this email from Peak Hour app. reference SNMP.

I do not know if it works in Mavs.

"Just in case anyone else has this problem, some Airports have their SNMP setting disabled and Apple in their infinite wisdom removed the SNMP setting from the most recent Airport Configuration Utility."

To enable SNMP, you need to download version 5.6.x of the tool which you can get from this link:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1536

For those running Mountain Lion, there are a few steps you need to follow to get it to work - they can be found here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0

__________________
Digitician Inc.
http://peakhourapp.com

I just found this link to solving the issue in Mavs.

http://frank.is/mountain-lion-and-the-old-airport-utility/

Installing the Old AirPort Utility (Version 5.6) on Mountain Lion/Mavericks

This will not allow you to have new AC units SNMP.

1. Need to monitor home network traffic...teenagers.

2. With multiple iDevices, I assume this needs to be at the router level.

3. Just replace aging router with Time Capsule 802.11ac back in December.

After reading most of this thread, it looks as if I need to by another router and relegate TC to backups.

Which routers should I consider? I don't need a lot of advanced features, just generate logs of sites visited, etc.

Unless they are not very intelligent, your teenagers will figure out a way around whatever monitoring and restrictions you impose within a few hours.

I have a very open dialog with them about all this and have done, and am doing my best, to educate/protect them on the dangers present on the internet. I am fully aware my kids are smart and there are endless resources available to them to bypass my monitoring and restrictions, but I am hoping that just the knowledge that I am doing my best to stay ahead, or at least, keep up with them will be a certain amount of deterrent. Naive, probably...

Look into Open DNS its free for home use and has lots of features.

http://www.opendns.com

This is an industry standard, and stupid to remove. You can lock it down with authentication if you are worried about it's being "secure".

I'm baffled at Apples decision to do this.

I'm annoyed and disappointed.

Bad Apple, Naughty Apple.

reconsider pls

Not THAT baffling, honestly, considering this is the "age of spying". It is in Apple's *best* interest to reduce their financial exposure to 'complicit acts of espbionage on their customers' by simply removing these tools from our hands, esp. those that allow us to see what's going on.

FWIW, I have configured my R7000 + DD-WRT (which I still absolutely LOVE over the Airport-now-paperweight sitting in the closet) to syslog all hosts and with a couple quick bash scripts + crontab, I now have a very handy /etc/hosts.deny file that is updated live every 15 seconds to keep bad guys out of my network. LOVE IT.

Not saying most of these are the NSA, but man, it's already got 13,637 entries in it (auto generated!) for traffic that incorrectly attempted to 'get in' to my network in the past couple months (since DD-WRT).

(If anybody wants a copy and I'll be glad to post deny file + scripts up somewhere...)