# vast-admin-mcp

> VAST Admin MCP Server - MCP server for VAST Data administration tasks

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/vast-admin-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/vast-data/vast-admin-mcp#readme
- repository: https://github.com/vast-data/vast-admin-mcp#readme
- version: 0.2.3
- license: Apache License 2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: management, mcp, storage, vast, vast-data
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:vast-admin-mcp

### Description (declared)

# VAST Admin MCP Server

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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for VAST Data administration. Enables AI assistants to interact with VAST clusters for monitoring, management, and data protection operations.

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vast-data/vast-admin-mcp/main/static/vast-admin-mcp-fast.gif" alt="VAST Admin MCP Demo" width="70%">

## Features

- 🤖 **Full MCP Integration** - Native support for Claude Desktop, Cursor, VSCode, and other MCP clients
- 🔧 **Cluster Management** - List and monitor VAST clusters, views, tenants, quotas, and more
- 📊 **Performance Metrics** - Real-time performance data and graph generation
- 🔐 **Secure Credentials** - Encrypted password storage using system keyring
- 🛡️ **API Whitelist** - Security through endpoint and method restrictions
- ✏️ **Read-Write Mode** - Optional write access for create operations (views, snapshots, quotas)
- 🎨 **Customizable** - YAML-based templates for adding custom list functions

## Installation

```bash
pip install vast-admin-mcp
```

**Requirements:**
- Python 3.10+
- `jq` command-line tool (for JSON transformations)

### Installing jq

**macOS:**
```bash
brew install jq
```

**Linux (Ubuntu/Debian):**
```bash
sudo apt-get install jq
```

**Linux (RHEL/CentOS):**
```bash
sudo yum install jq
```

## Quick Start

### 1. Configure VAST Cluster Connection

```bash
vast-admin-mcp setup
```

This will prompt you for:
- Cluster address (IP, FQDN, or URL)
- Username and password
- Tenant name (if applicable)

### 2. Configure Your AI Assistant

Get setup instructions for your AI tool:

```bash
# For Cursor
vast-admin-mcp mc…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.terminal (0.825, derived)
- ai.prompting (0.802, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/vast-admin-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T15:23:07.611Z)

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