# If installed via pip
pip install vastops-mcp

# If installed via pip
vastops-mcp setup


This will prompt you for:
- Cluster address (IP, FQDN, or URL like `https://host:port`)
- Username and password
- Tenant (for tenant admins)
- Tenant (for super admins - which tenant context to use)

# create the syntax for popular ai assistances (currently has builtin support for cursor,claude-desktop,windsurf,vscode)
vastops-mcp mcpsetup vscode
🔧 Configuring MCP server for: vscode
   Detected command: vastops-mcp
   Detected args: ['mcp']

📋 VSCode Configuration Instructions
   Config file location: /Users/user/.vscode/mcp.json

    Create a new file if not exists, or add the VASTOps MCP entry to the existing 'servers' section:
    {
        "servers": {
            "VASTOps MCP": {
                "command": "vastops-mcp",
                "args": [
                    "mcp"
                ]
            }
        }
    }

📝 Next steps:
   1. Edit or create the config file at the location shown above
   2. Restart VSCode
   3. The MCP server should be available in VSCode's MCP tools
   4. Test by asking VSCode to list VAST clusters

List all VAST clusters 
List all views on cluster cluster1
Show me all tenants across all clusters
Create bandwidth and iops graph for cluster1 over the last hour
create dataflow diagram for cluster1 for /path view on the tenant3 tenant for the last hour 
show me dataflow diagram for 172.21.224.139 on cluster1
Show me the hardware topology for cluster cluster1 
Are there any issues with my configured data protection relationships ? 
Create mini support bundle on cluster1 and name it bundle1. Timeframe should be yesterday at midnight for 4m. Generate it only for cnodes prefixed by cnode-128 and upload it to support without private data.
Find all users prefixed with "s3" on cluster cluster1 tenant tenant1
Are there any critical alerts on my clusters that were not acknoledged ?
List all snapshots for view path /data/app1 on cluster cluster1 tenant tenant1
Show me all quotas configured for tenant tenant1 on cluster cluster1
Get performance metrics for cnodes on cluster cluster1 over the last 7 day
Show me all view policies on cluster cluster1 that support S3 
First, get all available clusters. Then compare views with path "/" across all clusters, showing capcity information
Show me all tenants on cluster cluster1, for each tenant show me the 5 views with the highest used capacity
Get performance metrics for cluster cluster1, then get metrics for all cnodes, and finally get metrics for top 3 views. Show me a summary of IOPS and bandwidth for each object type
Find all views where logical used capacity is greater than 1TB. For each of these views, get their performance metrics over the last 24 hours and show which views have the highest IOPS

Create a new NFS view on cluster cluster1 with path /data/newview in tenant tenant1
Create a view on cluster cluster1 with path /shared/data in tenant tenant1 that supports both NFS and S3 protocols
Create a snapshot named "backup-2024-01-15" for view path /data/app1 on cluster cluster1, tenant tenant1 and keep it for 24h
Create a clone from snapshot "backup-2024-01-15" of view /data/app1. The clone should be at path /data/app1-clone in tenant tenant1 on cluster cluster1
Set a hard quota of 10TB for view path /data/app1 on cluster cluster1, tenant tenant1
Create 3 new views for vmware based on template. 
Create a indestructible snapshot named resrote-point_<view name> for all vmware views on cluster1 
Refresh a clone from most recent snapshot of view /data/app1 at path /data/app1-clone in tenant tenant1 on cluster cluster1

brew install jq

sudo apt-get install jq

sudo yum install jq

pip install vastops-mcp

vastops-mcp list
# Or
./vastops-mcp.sh list

# List views
vastops-mcp list views --cluster vast3115-var

# List tenants with JSON output
vastops-mcp list tenants --format json

# List views with filters
vastops-mcp list views --cluster cluster1 --tenant mytenant

# Save output to file
vastops-mcp list views --cluster cluster1 --output views.csv --format csv

# List clusters
vastops-mcp clusters

# List performance metrics
vastops-mcp performance --object-name tenant --cluster vast3115-var

# Query users
vastops-mcp query-users --cluster vast3115-var --prefix user

# Create a view
vastops-mcp create view --cluster cluster1 --path /myview --protocols NFS

# Create a view from template
vastops-mcp create view-from-template --cluster cluster1 --template-name mytemplate

# Create a snapshot
vastops-mcp create snapshot --cluster cluster1 --path /myview --name mysnapshot

# Create a clone
vastops-mcp create clone --cluster cluster1 --source-path /myview --source-snapshot mysnapshot --destination-path /myclone

# Create or update quota
vastops-mcp create quota --cluster cluster1 --path /myview --hard-limit 10GB

export VASTOPS_MCP_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_FILE=/custom/path/default_template.yaml
export VASTOPS_MCP_TEMPLATE_MODIFICATIONS_FILE=/custom/path/modifications.yaml
export VASTOPS_MCP_VIEW_TEMPLATE_FILE=/custom/path/view_templates.json
vastops-mcp list views

# Skip proxy for internal VAST clusters
export NO_PROXY=vast-cluster1.internal,10.0.0.5

# Basic HTTP proxy
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080

# Proxy with authentication
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://username:password@proxy.example.com:8080

# Run commands as normal — proxy is picked up automatically
vastops-mcp clusters
vastops-mcp list views --cluster cluster1

# Install PySocks for SOCKS proxy support
pip install 'vastops-mcp[socks]'
# — or directly —
pip install pysocks

# SOCKS5 proxy (client-side DNS resolution)
export ALL_PROXY=socks5://proxy.example.com:1080

# SOCKS5h proxy (remote DNS resolution — recommended for internal hostnames)
export ALL_PROXY=socks5h://proxy.example.com:1080

# SOCKS5 with authentication
export ALL_PROXY=socks5h://username:password@proxy.example.com:1080

# SOCKS4 proxy
export ALL_PROXY=socks4://proxy.example.com:1080

api_whitelist:
  # Simple format - GET only
  - clusters
  - tenants
  
  # With methods - GET + specified methods
  - views: [post]  # GET + POST for create operations
  - snapshots: [post]  # GET + POST for create operations
  - quotas: [post, patch]  # GET + POST + PATCH for create/update operations