Retrieves the complete organizational hierarchy for a specific business unit, showing parent-child relationships and the full organizational structure. Use this to understand business unit relationships and organizational structure.
AI agents call get_businessunit_hierarchy to retrieve information from Dataverse MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves organizational structure information via a GET-like operation with no side effects. It does not create, modify, delete, or execute any operations—it simply returns existing hierarchy data. This is a straightforward Read category operation with low severity since it only accesses metadata about organizational structure.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_businessunit_hierarchy' and description 'Retrieves the complete organizational hierarchy' indicate a read-only operation that queries and returns data about business unit relationships without modifying or executing any operations.
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Retrieves the complete organizational hierarchy for a specific business unit, showing parent-child relationships and the full organizational structure. Use this to understand business unit relationships and organizational structure. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Dataverse MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Dataverse MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_businessunit_hierarchy: 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 Dataverse MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_businessunit_hierarchy 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_businessunit_hierarchy 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_businessunit_hierarchy. 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_businessunit_hierarchy is provided by the Dataverse MCP Server MCP server (wizspdemo/dataverse-mcp3). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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