Get the data retention configuration for the controller, including how long logs, statistics, and client records are kept.
AI agents call getRetention to retrieve information from Tplink Omada without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves configuration data about how long logs, statistics, and client records are retained. It performs no write, deletion, execution, or financial operations. While the TP-Link Omada MCP server has broad API exposure, this specific tool is limited to reading retention policy settings.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getRetention' and description 'Get the data retention configuration' indicate a retrieval operation with no modification or side effects. The action is purely informational—querying retention settings.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access getRetention gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Tplink Omada, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for getRetention:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"getRetention": {}
}
}getRetention is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get the data retention configuration for the controller, including how long logs, statistics, and client records are kept. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Tplink Omada MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Tplink Omada MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getRetention: 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 Tplink Omada. Nothing to install.
getRetention 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 getRetention 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 getRetention. 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.
getRetention is provided by the Tplink Omada MCP server (migueltvms/tplink-omada-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Tplink Omada, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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