Arista CloudVision

🚀 MCP Server Demonstration with Arista CloudVision

This demonstration showcases how to use the MCP server with Arista CloudVision, providing a way to integrate and utilize related services.

⚠️ Important Note

Please note that this method is not officially supported by Arista.

You may not want to use it in a production environment as it does not use a local LLM.

The free plan may cause anxiety!

Thanks to @burnyd for inspiring and writing this blog post: https://danielhertzberg.net/posts/mcp-servers/.

Based on this, I added some additional API calls to enable Claude to obtain connectivity monitoring data and create tags for studios and dashboards. Obviously, any API call can be easily added via the @mcp.tool() decorator.

For more information, please visit https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction.

🚀 Quick Start

💻 Usage Examples

Basic Usage

1. Create an .env file similar to the following:

CVPTOKEN="Insert your CloudVision service account token here"
CVP="www.arista.io"

2. Download Claude Desktop.

3. Update the claude_desktop_config.json in Claude's developer settings and tell it to run your script as follows:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "CVP MCP Server": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--with",
        "fastmcp",
        "fastmcp",
        "run",
        "/home/ansible/mcp-cvp-fun/mcp_server_rest.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

4. Reload Claude and start prompting.

How to Generate a Service Account Token

You can create a service account from the settings page and generate a service token there, as shown below: