# Aruba Central MCP MCP Server

MCP server for Aruba Central: expose AP, switch, and client status to AI assistants

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `aruba-central-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

### Most discussed

### 調査: Claude Code MCP Tunnels(research preview)による外部公開不要化の検討

## 背景
トレンドMCP調査で Claude Code の MCP Tunnels（research preview、2026-07-28発表）を確認。プライベートネットワーク内の MCP サーバーを、インバウンドファイアウォール設定・パブリックエンドポイント・IPホワイトリストなしで Claude から利用可能にする機能。

参考: https://claude.com/blog/bringing-mcp-2026-07-28-to-claude

## 検討したい点
本サーバーは社内ネットワーク機器の管理用MCPサーバーであり、外部公開の必要性そのものをこの機能で消せる可能性がある。

- [ ] research preview から正式機能への移行時期を注視
- [ ] 現行の運用（本番運用ホスト常駐 + 何らかの公開経路）との比較で、Tunnels移行のメリット・制約を整理

まだ research preview 段階のため実運用切替は時期尚早。トラッキングのみ。

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/aruba-central-mcp/issues/52) · 2026-08-06 · open · 0 comments

### Add a live smoke test that exercises every registered tool

## Motivation

Unit tests check logic against fixtures. They cannot tell you that a tool users actually call has stopped returning real data — a tool that exists but does not work is worse than no tool.

This happened for real in `jquants-mcp`: the earnings-calendar tools returned well-formed **empty** results for every query while the whole suite stayed green (shigechika/jquants-mcp#523). A live smoke test was built there to close the gap, and on its first production run it found three defects,

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/aruba-central-mcp/issues/29) · 2026-07-25 · closed · 0 comments

### Unescaped LLM input in OData filter and URL path (latent injection)

Tool inputs are LLM-driven and treated as adversarial, but two paths interpolate them without escaping/validation:

- `_build_odata_filter` (`aruba_central_mcp/server.py:71`) builds each clause as `f"{field} eq '{value}'"` (`server.py:78`) with the single quotes **unescaped**. A `site`/`ssid`/name value containing a `'` alters the OData filter.
- MAC/serial values go straight into URL **path segments**, e.g. `client.get(f"{PATH_CLIENTS}/{mac}")` (`server.py:326`), with no validation or percent-e

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/aruba-central-mcp/issues/17) · 2026-07-12 · closed · 0 comments

### docs: user documentation site on GitHub Pages (family rollout)

## Summary

Roll out the family documentation-site pattern to this repository: a task-oriented user guide on GitHub Pages, complementing the reference README.

Template (live example): https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio — issue shigechika/mcp-stdio#284, scaffold PR shigechika/mcp-stdio#285, published at https://shigechika.github.io/mcp-stdio/ (Japanese at `/ja/`).

## Steps

1. Copy the three-piece scaffold from mcp-stdio and adapt:
   - `mkdocs.yml` — change `site_name` / `site_url` / `rep

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/aruba-central-mcp/issues/10) · 2026-07-02 · open · 0 comments

### ci: add Windows smoke test to guard stdio regressions (cf. python-sdk#2433)

## Background

This project depends on the official `mcp` package (a.k.a. `modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk`), whose `stdio_server()` currently emits CRLF instead of LF on Windows, corrupting the NDJSON wire format used by MCP. The upstream bug is tracked at [modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk#2433](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/issues/2433).

Current CI only runs on `ubuntu-latest`, so any Windows-specific regression (stdio newlines, path handling, signal behavior) goes undetec

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/aruba-central-mcp/issues/2) · 2026-04-14 · closed · 0 comments

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