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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)

bash

# 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

bash

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Configure environment

bash

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your FortiMonitor API key

3. Test connectivity

bash

python test_connectivity.py

4. Run the server

bash

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:

bash

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_pages`	5	Public status page CRUD
Network Services	`network_services`	5	Server network service CRUD, response time
Monitoring Nodes	`monitoring_nodes`	2	List and detail monitoring nodes
Network Service Types	`network_service_types`	2	List and detail service types
Reporting	`reporting`	10	Health summary, statistics, top alerting, exports, availability reports
Users	`users`	6	User CRUD, addons
Reference Data	`reference_data`	13	Account history, contact types, roles, timezones, attribute types
SNMP	`snmp`	12	Credentials CRUD, discovery, resource CRUD, metrics
OnSight	`onsight`	12	OnSight CRUD, groups, countermeasures, servers
Fabric	`fabric`	4	Fabric connection CRUD
Countermeasures	`countermeasures`	20	Network service & threshold countermeasures, outage metadata, thresholds

Integration with Claude Desktop

Add to Claude Desktop config (claude_desktop_config.json):

Option A: Using Docker (Recommended)

First, ensure the container is running:

bash

docker-compose up -d

Then add to your Claude Desktop config:

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fortimonitor": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["exec", "-i", "unofficial-fortimonitor-mcp", "python", "-m", "src.server"]
    }
  }
}

Option B: Using Local Python

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fortimonitor": {
      "command": "/path/to/unofficial-fortimonitor-mcp-server/.venv/bin/unofficial-fortimonitor-mcp",
      "args": [],
      "env": {
        "FORTIMONITOR_API_KEY": "your_key",
        "FORTIMONITOR_BASE_URL": "https://api2.panopta.com/v2",
        "PYTHONPATH": "/path/to/unofficial-fortimonitor-mcp-server",
        "ENABLE_SCHEMA_CACHE": "false"
      }
    }
  }
}

Note: Claude Desktop does not reliably set cwd, so use the full path to the installed entrypoint script and set PYTHONPATH explicitly. Set ENABLE_SCHEMA_CACHE=false to avoid [Errno 30] Read-only file system errors when the server cannot write to the default cache/ directory. Alternatively, set SCHEMA_CACHE_DIR to an absolute writable path to keep caching enabled.

API Documentation

The server automatically discovers and caches FortiMonitor API schemas for validation and documentation. Schemas are cached in cache/schemas/ by default.

Schema Endpoints

/schema/resources - Lists all available API resources
/schema/resources/{resource_name} - Get schema for specific resource

Development

Run tests

bash

pytest tests/ -v

Run tests with coverage

bash

pytest tests/ --cov=src --cov-report=html

Format code

bash

black src/ tests/

Type checking

bash

mypy src/

Lint

bash

flake8 src/ tests/

Project Structure

Code

unofficial-fortimonitor-mcp-server/
├── README.md
├── FORTIMONITOR_API_DOCS.md        # FortiMonitor API documentation
├── Dockerfile                      # Container definition
├── docker-compose.yml              # Docker Compose config
├── requirements.txt
├── pyproject.toml
├── .env.example
├── .gitignore
├── .dockerignore
├── test_connectivity.py
├── scripts/                        # Build and deployment scripts
│   ├── build.sh / build.bat
│   ├── test-container.sh / test-container.bat
│   ├── push.sh
│   └── release.sh
├── .github/
│   └── workflows/
│       └── docker-build.yml        # CI/CD pipeline
├── src/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── __main__.py
│   ├── server.py                   # MCP server entrypoint, dispatch registry
│   ├── config.py                   # Pydantic settings from env vars / .env
│   ├── fortimonitor/
│   │   ├── client.py               # Synchronous HTTP client (requests lib)
│   │   ├── schema.py               # Schema discovery & caching
│   │   ├── models.py               # Pydantic data models (~50 models)
│   │   └── exceptions.py           # Custom exceptions
│   └── tools/                      # 33 tool module files (241 tools)
│       ├── servers.py              # Server list/detail
│       ├── server_enhanced.py      # Server CRUD, attributes, logs, path monitoring
│       ├── outages.py              # Outage queries, health check
│       ├── outage_management.py    # Acknowledge, notes, details
│       ├── outage_enhanced.py      # Broadcast, escalate, delay, historical
│       ├── metrics.py              # Server metrics
│       ├── agent_resources.py      # Agent resource types & details
│       ├── server_management.py    # Status management, maintenance
│       ├── maintenance_enhanced.py # Maintenance CRUD, extend, pause
│       ├── bulk_operations.py      # Bulk ops, advanced search
│       ├── server_groups.py        # Server group CRUD
│       ├── server_groups_enhanced.py # Group members, policies, children
│       ├── templates.py            # Template list/detail/apply
│       ├── templates_enhanced.py   # Template CRUD, reapply
│       ├── notifications.py        # Notification schedules/contacts/groups
│       ├── notifications_enhanced.py # Schedule CRUD, sub-resources
│       ├── contacts_enhanced.py    # Contact CRUD, info, groups
│       ├── rotating_contacts.py    # On-call rotation management
│       ├── network_services.py     # Network service CRUD, response time
│       ├── network_service_types.py # Service type list/detail
│       ├── monitoring_nodes.py     # Monitoring node list/detail
│       ├── cloud.py                # Cloud providers, credentials, discovery
│       ├── dem.py                  # DEM applications, instances, locations
│       ├── compound_services.py    # Compound service CRUD, thresholds
│       ├── dashboards.py           # Dashboard CRUD
│       ├── status_pages.py         # Status page CRUD
│       ├── reporting.py            # Health, stats, exports, availability
│       ├── users.py                # User CRUD, addons
│       ├── reference_data.py       # Account history, types, roles, timezones
│       ├── snmp.py                 # SNMP credentials, discovery, resources
│       ├── onsight.py              # OnSight CRUD, groups
│       ├── fabric.py               # Fabric connection CRUD
│       └── countermeasures.py      # Countermeasures, thresholds, metadata
├── tests/
│   ├── conftest.py                 # Test fixtures
│   ├── test_client.py              # API client tests
│   ├── test_tools.py               # Original tool tests
│   ├── test_tool_definitions.py    # Tool definition validation
│   ├── test_dict_tool_handlers.py  # Dict-pattern handler tests
│   ├── test_registry.py            # Registry build tests
│   └── test_server.py              # Server integration tests
├── cache/
│   └── schemas/                    # Cached API schemas
└── docs/
    ├── USER_GUIDE.md               # End-user guide
    ├── DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md          # Developer/contributor guide
    └── WINDOWS_DEPLOYMENT.md       # Windows setup for Claude Desktop/Code

Troubleshooting

Authentication Errors

Verify API key in .env
Check base URL is correct (https://api2.panopta.com/v2)

Test API key with curl:

Terminal

curl "https://api2.panopta.com/v2/server?api_key=YOUR_KEY&limit=1"

Schema Discovery Failures

Check network connectivity
Verify cache/schemas/ directory exists and is writable
Clear cache and retry: rm -rf cache/schemas/*

MCP Server Not Appearing in Claude

Check Claude Desktop config syntax
Verify file paths are absolute
Restart Claude Desktop completely
Check server logs for startup errors

About the Developer

Built by Gregori Jenkins — originally from Chicago, a humble student of Computer Science, and a proud cat dad.

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License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.