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Add it to Claude Code
claude mcp add -e "FORTIMONITOR_API_KEY=${FORTIMONITOR_API_KEY}" fortimonitor-mcp -- python -m src.serverRequired:
FORTIMONITOR_API_KEY+ 2 optional2
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What it does
- Comprehensive server management including CRUD, tagging, and DNS flushing.
- Full outage lifecycle management from detection to escalation and resolution.
- Maintenance window scheduling and management for servers and groups.
- Cloud monitoring integration for discovery and resource management.
- Reporting capabilities including system health summaries and availability statistics.
Tools 3
list_serversRetrieve a list of all monitored servers.get_outage_detailsFetch detailed information about a specific outage incident.create_maintenance_windowSchedule a new maintenance window for a server or group.Environment Variables
FORTIMONITOR_API_KEYrequiredAPI key for authenticating with the FortiMonitor v2 API.FORTIMONITOR_BASE_URLThe base URL for the FortiMonitor API (default: https://api2.panopta.com/v2).LOG_LEVELLogging verbosity level (e.g., INFO, DEBUG).Try it
→List all servers currently experiencing an active outage.
→Create a maintenance window for the production database server for the next two hours.
→Get the latest metrics for the web-server-01 instance.
→Acknowledge all active outages for the 'Production' server group.
→Generate a system health summary report for the last 24 hours.
Original README from gjenkins20/unofficial-fortimonitor-mcp-server
Unofficial FortiMonitor MCP Server
Disclaimer: This is an unofficial community project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Fortinet, Inc. or the FortiMonitor/Panopta team. "FortiMonitor" and "Fortinet" are trademarks of Fortinet, Inc. Use at your own risk.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for FortiMonitor/Panopta v2 API integration with Claude AI.
241 tools across 33 modules providing near-complete coverage of the FortiMonitor v2 API.
Features
- Server Management — CRUD, tagging, attributes, DNS flush, path monitoring, logs
- Outage Monitoring — Query, acknowledge, escalate, broadcast, delay, historical incidents
- Metrics & Resources — Agent resources, SNMP resources, thresholds, metric graphs
- Maintenance Windows — Create, extend, pause, resume, terminate schedules
- Server Groups — Group CRUD, membership, compound services, child groups, monitoring policies
- Templates — Create, apply, reapply monitoring templates to servers and groups
- Notifications — Schedules, contacts, contact groups, rotating on-call contacts
- Cloud Monitoring — Providers, credentials, discovery, regions, services
- DEM — Digital Experience Monitoring applications, instances, locations
- Compound Services — Aggregated service CRUD, thresholds, availability, response time
- Dashboards & Status Pages — CRUD for monitoring dashboards and public status pages
- Reporting — System health summary, outage statistics, availability reports, CSV exports
- SNMP — Credentials, discovery, resource CRUD, metrics
- OnSight — On-premises monitoring instances and groups
- Fabric Connections — Integration management
- Countermeasures — Automated remediation on network services and thresholds
- User Management — User CRUD, roles, addons
- Reference Data — Contact types, timezones, roles, account history, server attribute types
- Docker Support — Easy deployment via Docker containers
- Windows Support — Native deployment on Windows for Claude Desktop and Claude Code
Quick Start
Option A: Docker (Recommended)
# Run with Docker
docker run -d \
--name unofficial-fortimonitor-mcp \
-e FORTIMONITOR_API_KEY=your-api-key-here \
gjenkins20/unofficial-fortimonitor-mcp:latest
# Or use Docker Compose
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env and set your API key
docker-compose up -d
See DOCKER_DEPLOYMENT.md for detailed Docker instructions.
Option B: Local Installation
1. Install dependencies
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Configure environment
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your FortiMonitor API key
3. Test connectivity
python test_connectivity.py
4. Run the server
python -m src.server
Option C: Windows (Claude Desktop / Claude Code)
See docs/WINDOWS_DEPLOYMENT.md for step-by-step Windows instructions.
Configuration
Edit .env:
FORTIMONITOR_BASE_URL=https://api2.panopta.com/v2
FORTIMONITOR_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
LOG_LEVEL=INFO
Available Tools (241)
The server exposes 241 MCP tools organized into the following categories. For full parameter details, see the End-User Guide.
| Category | Module(s) | Tools | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Servers | servers, server_enhanced |
21 | List, detail, CRUD, attributes, logs, DNS, path monitoring |
| Outages | outages, outage_management, outage_enhanced |
22 | Query, health check, acknowledge, escalate, broadcast, delay, historical |
| Metrics | metrics, agent_resources |
6 | Server metrics, agent resource types, resource details |
| Maintenance | server_management, maintenance_enhanced |
12 | Status management, maintenance window CRUD, extend, pause, resume |
| Bulk Operations | bulk_operations |
6 | Bulk acknowledge, bulk tags, advanced search, active outages |
| Server Groups | server_groups, server_groups_enhanced |
12 | Group CRUD, membership, policies, compound services, child groups |
| Templates | templates, templates_enhanced |
8 | Template CRUD, apply to server/group, reapply |
| Notifications | notifications, notifications_enhanced |
14 | Schedules, contacts, groups, schedule CRUD, sub-resource queries |
| Contacts | contacts_enhanced, rotating_contacts |
18 | Contact CRUD, contact info, contact groups, on-call rotations |
| Cloud | cloud |
15 | Providers, credentials, discovery, regions, services |
| DEM | dem |
10 | Applications, instances, locations, path monitoring |
| Compound Services | compound_services |
11 | Service CRUD, thresholds, availability, network services, response time |
| Dashboards | dashboards |
5 | Dashboard CRUD |
| Status Pages | `status_pa |