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Ignition MCP Server

by WhiskeyHouse
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Ignition MCP Server

A powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides seamless integration with Inductiveautomation's Ignition SCADA/MES platform through its REST API. This enables AI assistants to interact with Ignition Gateway operations for automation, monitoring, and management tasks.

🚀 Features

  • 🔌 Automatic API Integration: Dynamically generates 45+ tools from Ignition's OpenAPI specification

  • 🛡️ Flexible Authentication: Supports both API keys and basic authentication

  • 📊 Real-time Gateway Management: Monitor status, manage projects, handle backups, and more

  • 🎯 MCP Protocol: Full compatibility with Claude Desktop and other MCP clients

  • ⚡ Async Operations: Built on modern async/await patterns for optimal performance

  • 🔧 Comprehensive Toolset: Pre-built tools for activation, backups, logs, modules, and projects

📋 Tool Categories

Category

Tools

Description

🔐 Activation

7 tools

License management and gateway activation

💾 Backup

2 tools

Gateway backup creation and restoration

📋 Logs

11 tools

Log retrieval, management, and analysis

📦 Modules

10 tools

Module health checks and certificate management

🏗️ Projects

12 tools

Project creation, import, export, and management

⚙️ Base Tools

3 tools

Connection testing and tool discovery

🛠️ Requirements

  • Python 3.10+

  • Ignition Gateway 8.3+ with REST API enabled

  • Valid Ignition Gateway credentials or API key

📚 Documentation Structure

This repository includes comprehensive documentation:

🚀 Quick Start

1. Installation

# Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/yourusername/ignition-mcp.git cd ignition-mcp # Install with uv (recommended) uv venv source .venv/bin/activate # or .venv\Scripts\activate on Windows uv pip install -e .

2. Configuration

# Copy environment template cp .env.example .env # Edit with your Ignition Gateway details IGNITION_MCP_IGNITION_GATEWAY_URL=http://localhost:8088 IGNITION_MCP_IGNITION_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

3. Test & Run

# Test connection python test_server.py # Start MCP server python -m ignition_mcp.main

🔗 Integration with Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration:

{ "mcpServers": { "ignition-mcp": { "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "ignition_mcp.main"], "cwd": "/path/to/ignition-mcp", "env": { "IGNITION_MCP_IGNITION_GATEWAY_URL": "http://localhost:8088", "IGNITION_MCP_IGNITION_API_KEY": "your_api_key" } } } }

📖 Example Usage

# Test gateway connection {"tool": "test_connection", "arguments": {}} # Get gateway status {"tool": "get_gateway_status", "arguments": {}} # List all available tools {"tool": "list_available_tools", "arguments": {}} # Activate a license {"tool": "put_activation_activate_key", "arguments": {"key": "YOUR-LICENSE-KEY"}} # Create gateway backup {"tool": "get_backup", "arguments": {"includePeerLocal": false}} # Get recent logs {"tool": "get_logs", "arguments": {"limit": 100, "minLevel": "INFO"}}

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details on:

  • Development setup

  • Code style guidelines

  • Testing procedures

  • Pull request process

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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