February 2026 (1.1 build 236)

Features

New MCP Server – AI automation via MCP

IPNetwork Monitor now includes a built‑in MCP Server that lets AI assistants and IDE agents (for example, ChatGPT or Cursor) automate routine monitoring tasks and orchestrate workflows across your environment – under your control. The MCP Server is disabled by default; enable it in the Client GUI Settings when you’re ready to use it.

Examples & quickstarts: See Getting Started with IPNetwork MCP API.

What you can do

The initial release ships with 33 MCP tools organized into the categories below (see API documentation for complete schemas and examples):

  • Agent Management — list existing agents (list-agents).
  • Host Groups — create host groups; read host group parameters (create-hostgroup, hostgroup-parameters).
  • Hosts — create hosts; read host parameters (create-host, host-parameters).
  • Monitors — create monitors; read parameters; query current state, history, or graph data (create-monitor, monitor-parameters, monitor-state with current/history/graph types).
  • Composite Alerts — create / get / list.
  • Alerting Rules — create / get / list.
  • Schedules — create / get / list.
  • Simple Actions — create / get / list.
  • Credentials — create / get / list for SNMP, Unix‑like, and Windows credentials.
  • Parameters & Topology — read object parameters, effective-parameters (with inheritance), find parent, list children.

Enable & connect

  1. Open Settings → MCP.
  2. Turn on Enable MCP Server (off by default).
  3. Copy MCP endpoint URL and Access Token.
  4. Connect your MCP client (e.g., Cursor or an AI assistant) and start invoking tools.

Fixed issues

Monitoring Service
  • A bug was fixed that led to service malfunction if alerting was re-enabled after being disabled by the user, and the “E-mail me ‘Missed alerts’ reminder” setting is on.
  • Resolved an issue where regular reporting email reports appeared broken. The HTML generation process now strictly adheres to SMTP line length limits (RFC 5321) to prevent mail servers from breaking the layout.
Monitoring Client
  • Fixed issue of MSG variant of the “NET SEND” simple action not working under 64-bit Windows.
  • The “NET SEND” simple action was renamed to “Windows MSG message”.
  • Option to use the “NET SEND” command in a simple action was removed, because this command is unavailable in Windows since Windows Vista. The MSG command is used instead.
Installer
  • Log files of previous version are now preserved on upgrade of IPNetwork Monitor on Windows
  • RHEL-compatible IPNetwork monitoring agent service now restarts when the agent is upgraded; previously, the service for the upgraded version might continue to run
Software Components
  • Third party tools such as Apache HTTP server, OpenSSL, curl and other libraries have been updated to their latest stable versions.
  • A built-in Python interpreter (also known as embedded Python) has been updated from 3.10.18 to 3.10.19.