get_site_health
AI agents call get_site_health to retrieve information from Cisco Catalyst Center MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Despite the empty description, the naming convention and context of sibling tools—all of which are clearly read-only monitoring and status retrieval operations—strongly suggest get_site_health retrieves site or network health status data. The server is described as providing 'monitoring device health' and 'tracking' operations, which are read-only. No evidence of modification, deletion, or external operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_site_health' combined with empty description but consistent with sibling tools (get_client_counts, get_client_detail, get_compliance_count, get_compliance_detail, get_eox_device_details, get_eox_devices, get_eox_summary, get_issues,…
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
get_site_health. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Cisco Catalyst Center MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Cisco Catalyst Center MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_site_health: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Cisco Catalyst Center MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_site_health is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_site_health rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_site_health. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_site_health is provided by the Cisco Catalyst Center MCP Server MCP server (martynrees/catalyst-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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