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:

Installation Guide - Step-by-step setup instructions
Configuration Guide - Environment and settings configuration
API Reference - Complete API documentation for all modules
Usage Examples - Practical examples and tutorials
Contributing Guide - Development guidelines and contribution process
Troubleshooting - Common issues and solutions

🚀 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.

🔗 Related Projects

Model Context Protocol - The MCP specification
Ignition Documentation - Official Ignition docs
Claude Desktop - AI assistant with MCP support

📞 Support

Issues: GitHub Issues
Discussions: GitHub Discussions
Documentation: Project Wiki

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remote-capable server

The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.

Enables AI assistants to interact with Inductiveautomation's Ignition SCADA/MES platform through its REST API. Provides 45+ tools for gateway management, project operations, backup handling, log analysis, and license activation.

Ignition MCP Server

Ignition MCP Server

🚀 Features

📋 Tool Categories

🛠️ Requirements

📚 Documentation Structure

🚀 Quick Start

1. Installation

2. Configuration

3. Test & Run

🔗 Integration with Claude Desktop

📖 Example Usage

🤝 Contributing

📄 License

🔗 Related Projects

📞 Support

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