Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Is there any reference or explanation of the XML tags (key/values) in an Airport Extreme configuration (.baseconfig) file?



Background


You can export your Airport Extreme (AEBS) configuration file using Airport Utility with File > Export Configuration File. This is useful for backing up / restoring your configuration settings.


Also using instructions such as these you can edit this file to use your AEBS to connect directly to a Fibre Modem, something that isn't possible with Airport Utility.


And, since version 6 of Airport Utility, you can no longer set your AEBS Syslog setting without using an old version of the Airport Utility (involving some really tedious workarounds) or again editing this file manually.


I've started to create a little App that will parse this XML file into an interface that will make editing these various settings easier.


The question


To this end, I'm looking for any reference or information on any of the XML tags (key/values) in the .baseconfig XML file which could possibly expose other functionality of the AEBS which isn't available through the Airport Utility.


Especially XML tags like the already mentioned syslog tags <slCl> and <slvl> that can be utilised to restore some of the missing functionality since version 6 of Airport Utility was released.


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