# Junos MCP MCP Server

MCP server for Juniper Networks device operations via junos-ops

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `junos-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**18 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Expose junos-ops --tags filter to MCP tools

## Summary

`junos-ops` supports `--tags TAG,...` to filter target hosts (AND-match across multiple tags). The underlying `common.args.tags` is already wired in `server.py` but hard-coded to `None`, so MCP tools currently always operate on the full router list from `config.ini`.

Exposing a `tags` parameter on the batch/listing tools would let AI agents target a logical subset (e.g. `main` vs `backup` VRRP peers, or per-site tags) without the agent having to re-implement the filter client-side.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/junos-mcp/issues/1) · 2026-04-13 · closed · 1 comment

### run_show_* tools accept any operational-mode command (reboot, clear, restart)

## Summary

`run_show_command`, `run_show_commands` and `run_show_command_batch` pass the caller's string
to `Device.cli()` with no validation. Operational mode cannot enter configuration mode, so this
is not as broad as a config-change path -- but it is still not read-only.

```python
# junos_ops/show.py -- run_cli()
raw = _cli_with_retry(dev, command, hostname, retry, output_format)
```

The only validation is on `output_format`. The command string itself is never checked, so these
tools will 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/junos-mcp/issues/79) · 2026-08-14 · open · 0 comments

### 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/junos-mcp/issues/73) · 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/junos-mcp/issues/55) · 2026-07-25 · closed · 0 comments

### release.yml: github-release job fails every release (gh release create conflicts with release-please)

The `release.yml` pipeline has failed on every recent release (v0.15.2 – v0.15.5), even though the package publishes to PyPI fine.

### What fails
All jobs pass (`test` → `build` → `testpypi` → `publish` → `mcp-registry`) except the final **`github-release`** job, at:

```
gh release create "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" dist/* --generate-notes
```

### Why
release-please **already creates the GitHub Release** when its release PR is merged (that's what pushes the `v*` tag). So by the time `release.yml` runs

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/junos-mcp/issues/45) · 2026-07-12 · closed · 0 comments

### Most recent

### daily_brief: a 'No alarms' node section suppresses the other node's real alarms (sectioned cluster/VC output)

## Problem

`daily_brief`'s alarm checks (check 1 `show system alarms` / check 2 `show chassis alarms` in `_check_host_health`) gate on a whole-output substring test:

```python
if "No alarms" not in out:
```

On SRX chassis clusters (and any multi-node/VC platform), the CLI output is sectioned per node:

```
node0:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
No alarms currently active

node1:
------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/junos-mcp/issues/21) · 2026-06-12 · closed · 0 comments

### daily_brief: report a physical interface as IF_DOWN only if it has a description AND went down within since_hours

## Background
After #13 (exclude loopback / mgmt / internal logical units), `daily_brief` still floods WARNING with **unused physical access ports** that are `up down` (e.g. an access switch with `ge-0/0/0..21` down). These have no description and are simply not patched. They bury real faults.

Observed 2026-06-05 morning run: `brs-sw` produced 22 `[IF_DOWN]` lines, all undescribed unused ports. `med-sw` reported `xe-0/1/1` which has been down for ~50 weeks (chronic, no description).

## Proposa

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/junos-mcp/issues/15) · 2026-06-05 · closed · 0 comments

### daily_brief: IF_DOWN check is too noisy — exclude management & internal interfaces

## Problem

`daily_brief`'s interface check flags every admin-up / link-down interface as `[IF_DOWN]`, excluding only loopbacks (`lo*`). In practice this buries real anomalies under interfaces that are *expected* to be down:

- **Management / OOB**: `fxp0`, `me0`, `me0.0`, `vme`, `em0` / `em1` (unplugged by design on many chassis)
- **Juniper internal logical units**: `.16386` (internal services), `.32767`, `.32768`
- **Unused physical ports left admin-up**: spare breakout members (e.g. `xe-2/1/

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/junos-mcp/issues/13) · 2026-06-02 · closed · 0 comments

### feat: daily_brief — morning health check across all tagged routers

## Summary

A new `daily_brief` MCP tool that performs a structured health check
across all routers in a tag group (e.g. `["main"]`) and returns a
compact anomaly-highlighted summary. Designed for daily morning use:
run once, get an at-a-glance view of overnight events, and let Claude
drill into anything flagged.

## Motivation

Current workflow: check each router manually or chain multiple
`run_show_command_batch` calls. There is no single tool that:

1. **Detects NAT pool exhaustion** (SRX fle

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/junos-mcp/issues/10) · 2026-05-25 · closed · 0 comments

### feat: track junos-ops v0.17–v0.23 API additions (unlink, disk space, no_commit, output_format)

junos-mcp currently requires junos-ops ≥ 0.16.9 (released 2026-04-16).
junos-ops has since shipped v0.17.0 – v0.23.0. Four API additions are
worth surfacing as MCP tool parameters; one (disk space) is a display
update that requires a new RPC call on the MCP side.

## Changes to track

### 1. `install_package`: add `unlink` flag (junos-ops v0.23.0 #89) — **highest priority**

PyEZ `SW.install()` does not expose the `unlink` parameter of
`request system software add`. On low-flash devices (EX2300 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/junos-mcp/issues/9) · 2026-05-25 · closed · 0 comments

### run_show_command_batch: add server-side grep_pattern to reduce output size

## Problem

When patrolling 93 campus routers with `run_show_command_batch` and `show route summary`, the output exceeds the MCP inline limit (~100 KB) and is saved to a tool-results file. Claude Code then has to read that file and run Python to extract a single field (`inet.0` destination count) per host.

Example patrol command:
```
run_show_command_batch(tags=["main"], command="show route summary | match 'inet.0:'")
```

Even with `| match` in the JUNOS command, the full structured batch resu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/junos-mcp/issues/6) · 2026-05-01 · closed · 0 comments

### feat: per-host SSH/NETCONF connection pool with idle timeout

## Motivation
Each MCP tool call currently opens a fresh NETCONF session (`common.connect()` → work → `dev.close()`). For AI-driven single-host deep-dive / troubleshooting workflows this is wasteful: a typical LLM exploration hits the same device with 5–20 sequential tool calls over a few minutes.

Per-call handshake cost is roughly:
- TCP + SSH handshake: ~1–2 s
- NETCONF `<hello>` capability exchange: ~0.5–1 s
- PyEZ `Device.open()` facts gather (when enabled): ~5–10 RPCs

Upstream [Juniper/ju

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/junos-mcp/issues/5) · 2026-04-16 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 17 reports Pod holds for Junos MCP](/mcp/junos-mcp/issues) — of 18 qualified upstream.

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