Airport Extreme base station not recognized anymore by Airport Utility software

Hello,
I just encountered the problem today.
I have old Airport Extreme base sation (mushroom design).Picture below.
I have iMac 24". About this Mac Picture below.
Obviously, Airport Utility has been updated recently and today my network is not valid anymore, as well as the mushroom is not managed by Aiport Utility softwrare anymore. The only way to get WiFi now is using my computer as an antenna via the sharing of internet trough its WiFi card: not satisfactory.
The message of the software led directly to this support community.
The picture with the base station icon says: "this version of Airport Utility does not support this base station. To know more, check the Sevice and Support Community."
I did reset the base station may times, without success. I can't rename the base sattion, i can't create rename my network, i can't set up password access, i can't use WiFi other than the default Airport Extreme network.
Since this is not my field of knowledge, would anyone come up with a brilliant solution other than .... :
"Did Apple just manage to make you buy a new Airport base station ?."
Thank you for your time.

Hello,
Thank you for your reply and exlpanation.
I just downloaded the Aiport Utility 5.6.1 from Apple site. Unfortunately the OS X version is not compatible with this Airport Utility.
I don't have Time Machine neither.
Below is the message I got:
"Airport Utility cannot be installed on this hard drive. The Mac OS X version on this drive is not supported"
Is there something inbetween: a correction to Airport Utility 6.2 plug in that would accept my base station and compatible with my iMac ?.
Thank you for your attention.

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