Statistics from newer Airport Extreme

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Statistics from newer Airport Extreme

It appears that Logs & Statistics has been removed from current versions of the Airport software (why?).

We have a situation where an office WIFI was set up with some of these; we are experiencing some intermittent issues, which we "believe" may be saturation, but without any meaningful way to poll the devices, we're at a loss to figure it out.

My question is, is there some way that I've not found to obtain some basic statistics from these units?

Thanks in advance...

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Sep 2, 2015 12:15 PM

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Forrest Author

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Sep 2, 2015 1:38 PM in response to Forrest

Replying to my own post, for other's sake. I spoke with Apple Support and there appears to be no options for us here, in terms of getting any statistics or usage info.

I feel this is very counter intuitive, alas.

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Tesserax

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Sep 2, 2015 2:53 PM in response to Forrest

One option with v6.x of the AirPort Utility is to hold down the option key BEFORE clicking on Edit. On the Summary tab there will be a list of Wireless Clients. Click on the right arrow in front of a device and it will provide some additional statistics for that device's connection to the base station.

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Forrest Author

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Sep 2, 2015 2:53 PM in response to Tesserax

Thank you, this actually proved very helpful. Not even Apple Support knew about this.

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Tesserax

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Sep 2, 2015 3:08 PM in response to Forrest

You're very welcome!

The other option would be to use SNMP commands in Terminal to get statistics on connected clients, like snmpwalk. Unfortunately Apple removed SNMP monitoring from the latest AirPorts / firmware versions and using these commands will result in a 'no response' from the base station. Not sure of the logic there.

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Forrest Author

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Sep 2, 2015 3:09 PM in response to Tesserax

We are in *.edu and just accept that these units were not designed for enterprise use; therefore, and unfortunately, it will result in our completely divesting ourselves of the Apple WIFI product line, in favor of something more commercial, like Cisco.

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