So I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, and I'm watching some Netflix over my Apple TV, when it stops streaming and tells me it's not connected to the network any more. Sure enough, my Air has also lost it's network connectivity and the Airport Extreme is solid Amber on the status light. I wait a while, it starts to flash green, then it goes green, and slowly my SSIDs start to appear, and everything is normal again. I presume the AE just rebooted, so I fire up Airport extreme to look at the logs, and remember that in Airport Utility 6.0, all the nice advanced features (and some not so advanced ones) are not available. Amongst them is viewing the logs.

So I download 5.6, which is the most recent non-6.0 version that uses the old ways and lets you view logs etc - and it won't install because it's not compatible with Mountain Lion. A bit of googling about also reveals that apparently V6.0 will only manage Wireless-N networks. Seems anyone with older Airport kit, or a need to do anything slightly advanced in ML is screwed.

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Anyone know how I can either view logs in 6, or install 5.6 on 10.8? I too was unable to get any of the installers to install any older 5.x version of the utility onto Mountain Lion, but I did copy over 5.3.3 from a Lion machine and it has been working fine for days to manage some hardware. It is not signed so GateKeeper will prevent you from running it until you go to security preference and allow downloads from anywhere to run. I'll probably set up syslogd forwarding so I don't need to fire up a Lion VM or boot back into Lion for routine diagnostics.

This is a bit of a pain to not be able to do some of the following things with a supported client on Mountain Lion: • save and manage profiles • see signal strength graphs • configure syslog forwarding • look at the system logs This seems like a poor solution since the newer AirPort extremes are not usable even on 5.6 version of the software and I strongly dislike using unsupported software to manage something like a network router. Here's how I did it. Worked fine for me: • Find Airport Utility 5.6 on a machine running Lion. Copy it directly from the Applications folder onto a formatted thumb drive or the like.

(Or extract the app from the.pkg using Pacifist.) • Copy the app to the desktop on your Mountain Lion machine. • Rename it to Airport Utility 5.6.app • Copy it to the Applications folder.

All the problems arise when you try to REPLACE 6.x. So don't replace it. Just install them side-by-side. This way you get the best of both worlds: they both work fine (if you may call anything about 6.x 'fine'). Doing it this way does not interfere with updates. And if you need to turn on SNMP just open 6.x and do it.

Then close the damned thing and use 5.6 for everything else.

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