List all ports on a switch with status, speed, PoE, connected devices, and assigned port profile.
AI agents call unifi-device-ports to retrieve information from UniFi MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only operation that queries and returns information about network switch ports. It has no side effects, creates no resources, modifies no configuration, and causes no irreversible changes. The blast radius of misuse is limited to information disclosure about network topology and device connections, which is low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate it 'List all ports on a switch with status, speed, PoE, connected devices, and assigned port profile' — a query operation that retrieves network device port information without modification.
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List all ports on a switch with status, speed, PoE, connected devices, and assigned port profile. It is categorised as a Read tool in the UniFi MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the UniFi MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for unifi-device-ports: 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 UniFi MCP Server. Nothing to install.
unifi-device-ports 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 unifi-device-ports 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 unifi-device-ports. 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.
unifi-device-ports is provided by the UniFi MCP Server MCP server (philipvanlewis/unifi-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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