AirPort Management Utility 1.0: Adjusting the SNMP scan settings

AirPort Management Utility uses SNMP to check the status of Apple base stations on the network. You can adjust the scan interval with the defaults command, which takes this form:


defaults write com.apple.airport.managementutility


For example:


defaults write com.apple.airport.managementutility logTimeInterval 2



logTimeInterval 1 The number of seconds to wait between retrieving saved syslog messages from a base station when the Log panel is active.
monitorTimeInterval 5 The number of seconds to wait between each SNMP query when the Monitor panel is active.
statusCheckLimit 5 The number of times to attempt to retrieve status from a base station. On a slow or busy network, this value can be increased to make the application try more often to get status from remote base stations.
statusCheckInterval 30 The number of seconds to wait between polling for base station status. The program periodically polls all the base stations it knows about in order to maintain accurate status. If you're less concerned with this and have a large number of base stations, you might want to increase this number to reduce the amount of polling.

Published Date: Oct 7, 2016