How do I enable SNMP on Airport Extreme 802.11ac?

I actually just went the same route myself and got an Edgerouter 2 weeks ago. It's relatively easy to setup (if you were going to flash another router, you can handle it I'm sure). You'll want to upgrade it right away.. even my new one had a pretty old version of the OS on it that was lacking a lot of features.

The traffic reporting it does itself seems limited to the last 24 hours or so, but I already had cacti installed on my linux box and get all the longer term data via SNMP again... which is what I was doing with my Airport until they pulled snmp some time ago.

It's an embedded mips64 based linux box with a customized version of vyatta on it so I have a feeling that, with enough digging, one could likely run cacti or another setup on it to keep the longer term data local if desired. I didn't dig since I already had what I needed.

Hi mmarionsd1,

Great! Thank you for the response. I think I'll give it a try! Also, thank you for the head's up on the OS. I'll be sure to update that as well. Sounds like this will provide the functions I need.

Thank you!

I think that Apple's slow effort to dumb down the Airport product line is simply an effort to increase corporate revenue. If you strip all of the "complex" features away you can staff your call center with "cheaper" support staff.

Good assumption but this is flat out wrong because even when SNMP was offered in the GUI it was not supported. Customers were only guided to where the feature lived not anything else. The terminal is not supported either, only recovering from a situation where it doesn't launch.

Maybe the plist can help figure that out.

"You can actually pretty much probe the configuration of a router through SNMP if it is not secured. And of course it's typically not, unfortunately." - Steve Gibson

Thanks for posting your solution using the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite3. I have a similar situation - running an Airport Express with a base station for extended coverage. Very happy with the wireless service from the AE but I want to monitor bandwidth usage as my internet service is capped and I am not confident in the usage reporting that is being provided by my ISP. Having discovered that my AE doesn't support SNMP, I am looking for something that I can put between my cable modem and AE for the sole purpose of monitoring. Do you know if I could configure the EdgeRouter in bridge mode as a pass-through, and leave the AE settings as is?

Thanks.

No.. to measure throughput the router must route..

You can easily set the airport to bridge..

I still think Gargoyle is an easier solution.. and cheaper.. !!

A suitable router is a few dollars.. and it includes setting quota.

Hi everyone, how can I tell what generation my Airport Time Capsule is to see if it has SNMP? The model it lists A1409 on the bottom.

Thanks!

Yours is gen4.. it is not crippled .. it still has SNMP.

Good news! Do I need to do anything to activste it it it should be on by default? I couldn't find a specific option in the airport utility.

It is on and working.. AFAIK by default.

You did have control over it in the v5 firmware.. but of course v6 removed all such functionality.

If you run into trouble post back.. but you can load v5 utility into any Mac OS even ones not supported by using a certain method Apple does like me to post..

So google yourself, 5.6.1 airport utility yosemite

You will find the info you need and it will work on any of the OS since Mavericks.. before Mavericks ie Lion and Mountain Lion it can still be installed directly with some.. tweaking.. again just google it.

This is great info. Thank you. I grabbed the app NetUse but it is saying SNMP is not enabled. Using the v5 version of the airport utility I confirmed it is on. Any idea why it may not be able to connect? My airport is in bridge mode - could that break SNMP?

solomani wrote:

This is great info. Thank you. I grabbed the app NetUse but it is saying SNMP is not enabled. Using the v5 version of the airport utility I confirmed it is on. Any idea why it may not be able to connect? My airport is in bridge mode - could that break SNMP?

Bridge has nothing to do with SNMP although it does make a lot of the counters useless.

I would have to suggest it is password issue.. go back to using public as the main password and see what happens.. I will test this and get back to you.

Ok.. I bridged a Gen5 AE.. and it is working fine with Peakhour. The community password is still public as per normal.

Maybe your setup is wrong and you are not actually connected correctly to the airport.

MMaybe this is me. I thought "community password" was the airport password. I'll check again When I get home. Will disable bridge if need be.

Even with bridge I should still get good data since the only connection to the router is the airport (wifi is disabled). Unless there is something specific to bridge which affects SNMP?