CTERA Portal

CTERA Portal is a multi-tenant, multi-cloud platform that delivers a global namespace and unified management across petabytes of distributed content.

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Updated 1 week ago
Added Apr 14, 2025

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MCP Server for CTERA Portal

mcp-ctera-core provides an AI-powered interface to interact with the CTERA Intelligent Data Services Platform, using Model Context Protocol (MCP). This integration enables access to the file management APIs of CTERA Portal, allowing you to perform operations through natural language or automation workflows.


🔧 Features

  • Integration with CTERA Portal APIs for file and folder management
  • AI-driven command execution via MCP
  • Configurable with environment variables for secure credentials
  • Easily extensible to support more CTERA functions

🚀 Getting Started

To run this server, ensure you have the MCP runtime installed and follow the configuration steps below.


🧩 MCP Server Configuration

Configuration using Standard I/O:

{
    "mcpServers": {
      "ctera-core-mcp-stdio": {
        "command": "uv",
        "args": [
          "--directory",
          "/path/to/mcp-ctera-core/src",
          "run",
          "stdio.py"
        ],
        "env": {
          "ctera.mcp.core.settings.scope": "user",
          "ctera.mcp.core.settings.host": "your.ctera.portal.domain",
          "ctera.mcp.core.settings.user": "your-username",
          "ctera.mcp.core.settings.password": "your-password",
          "ctera.mcp.core.settings.ssl": "true"
        }
      }
    }
  }

Configuration using SSE:

export ctera.mcp.core.settings.scope="user"
export ctera.mcp.core.settings.host="your.ctera.portal.domain"
export ctera.mcp.core.settings.user="your-username"
export ctera.mcp.core.settings.password="your-password"
export ctera.mcp.core.settings.ssl="true"
$env:ctera.mcp.core.settings.scope = "user"
$env:ctera.mcp.core.settings.host = "your.ctera.portal.domain"
$env:ctera.mcp.core.settings.user = "your-username"
$env:ctera.mcp.core.settings.password = "your-password"
$env:ctera.mcp.core.settings.ssl = "true"
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ctera-core-mcp-sse": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8000/sse"
    }
  }
}


🐳 Docker Deployment

You can also run the MCP server using Docker:

Build the Docker Image

docker build -t mcp-ctera-core .

Run with Docker

docker run -p 8000:8000 \
  -e ctera.mcp.core.settings.scope=user \
  -e ctera.mcp.core.settings.host=your.ctera.portal.domain \
  -e ctera.mcp.core.settings.user=your-username \
  -e ctera.mcp.core.settings.password=your-password \
  -e ctera.mcp.core.settings.ssl=true \
  mcp-ctera-core
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