Nutanix AIops (preview)

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Governed AI-ops for Nutanix Prism Central (v4 REST API) — clusters, hosts, VMs (AHV + ESXi), storage, network, catalog, data protection / DR, alerts, LCM upgrades, and capacity — with a built-in governance harness: unified audit log, policy engine, token/runaway budget guard, undo-token recording, and graduated-autonomy risk tiers. Connects to Prism Central on HTTPS :9440 with HTTP Basic auth (username + encrypted password). Self-contained: no dependencies beyond httpx and the MCP SDK. Preview — mock-validated only, not yet verified against a live Prism Central.

Why this over a read-only Nutanix MCP

• Automatic ETag / If-Match on every mutation. The v4 API rejects an update or delete without the entity's current ETag — the classic footgun. This tool fetches and sends If-Match for you.

• Automatic pagination — list tools return the full set, not just page one.

• Mixed-hypervisor VM listing — vm_list returns both AHV and ESXi guests under the same Prism Central (built for hypervisor-migration estates).

• Governance harness — audit / token+call budget / risk-tier approval / undo-token / prompt-injection sanitize, with dry-run + double-confirm on destructive writes.

Related MCP server: nutanix-mcp

Capability matrix (47 MCP tools)

analyze_alert is the flagship read: it correlates an alert with its related events into a probable-cause + suggested-actions summary. High-risk writes (vm_delete, vm_migrate, storage_container_delete, subnet_delete, snapshot_delete, snapshot_restore, pd_failover, image_delete, lcm_update) support dry_run and, at the CLI, double confirmation.

Install

uv tool install nutanix-aiops          # or: pipx install nutanix-aiops

Quick start

nutanix-aiops init                     # wizard: PC host / port 9440 / username / verify_ssl + encrypted password
nutanix-aiops doctor                   # config, secrets, connectivity + REST-RBAC preflight
nutanix-aiops overview                 # one-shot estate summary
nutanix-aiops vm list                  # AHV + ESXi VMs

Run as an MCP server (stdio):

export NUTANIX_AIOPS_MASTER_PASSWORD=...   # unlock the encrypted secret store non-interactively
nutanix-aiops mcp

CLI

nutanix-aiops (Typer): init, overview, doctor, mcp; cluster list/health/hosts/util; vm list/get/power/delete/migrate (delete & migrate take --dry-run + double confirm); secret set/list/rm/migrate/rotate-password. The CLI is a convenience subset — the full 47-tool surface is via the MCP server.

Governance

Every MCP tool passes through the bundled @governed_tool harness:

• Audit — every call (params, result, status, duration, risk tier, approver, rationale) is logged to ~/.nutanix-aiops/audit.db (relocatable via NUTANIX_AIOPS_HOME).

• Budget / runaway guard — token and call budgets trip a circuit breaker.

• Risk tiers — graduated autonomy; high-risk ops can require a named approver (NUTANIX_AUDIT_APPROVED_BY / NUTANIX_AUDIT_RATIONALE).

• Undo recording — reversible writes record an inverse descriptor (vm_update → prior CPU/memory, vm_migrate → prior host).

Credentials

The Prism Central password is stored encrypted in ~/.nutanix-aiops/secrets.enc (Fernet + scrypt) — never plaintext on disk. Unlock with a master password from NUTANIX_AIOPS_MASTER_PASSWORD (MCP/CI) or an interactive prompt (CLI). The non-secret connection details (host, port, username, verify_ssl) live in ~/.nutanix-aiops/config.yaml. A legacy plaintext env var NUTANIX_<TARGET>_PASSWORD is honoured as a fallback.

Gotcha: the Prism Central account needs REST API rights, not just Web UI access. doctor's REST-RBAC preflight catches this early.

Supported scope & limitations

• Preview / mock-only. All behaviour is validated against mocked v4 REST responses; it has not been run against a live Prism Central. The fastest live check is nutanix-aiops doctor.

• Self-testable free on Nutanix Community Edition (CE): a single-node CE cluster + an X-Small Prism Central VM.

• Least-verified paths: LCM update (lcm_update), protection-domain failover (pd_failover), and ESXi-VM listing in particular need live validation.

• Out of scope this release: IAM / users / roles, Files / Objects / Volumes services, reports, X-Play playbooks, and anything outside Prism Central v4.

Missing a capability?

Missing a tool, an API dialect, or a workflow? Open an issue or PR — feedback and contributions are welcome.