TrueNAS AIops

Disclaimer: Community-maintained open-source project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by iXsystems or the TrueNAS project. "TrueNAS" is a trademark of its owner. MIT licensed.

AI-powered TrueNAS SCALE storage operations with a built-in governance harness — unified audit log, policy engine, token/runaway budget guard, undo-token recording, and descriptive risk tiers. Self-contained: no external dependencies beyond httpx and the MCP SDK. Mock-validated only, not yet verified against a live TrueNAS appliance.

Verification status: mock-validated only; REST endpoint paths are modelled from the documented API and not yet confirmed against a live appliance. See docs/VERIFICATION.md.

Supported TrueNAS versions — read this before upgrading

This tool talks to TrueNAS over the REST API v2.0 (/api/v2.0), and iXsystems is retiring that API on a published timeline:

TrueNAS 26 removed REST entirely, replacing it with JSON-RPC 2.0 over a persistent WebSocket at /api/current. truenas-aiops does not speak that transport yet, so upgrading an appliance to TrueNAS 26 is a breaking change for this tool — not a routine upgrade. There is no configuration that works around it; a WebSocket backend is a separate piece of work (new dependency, persistent connection, and a different auth flow, since 26 also deprecates auth.login_with_api_key).

Two things make this visible rather than mysterious:

• truenas-aiops doctor reads the server version from /system/info and says plainly whether REST is supported, deprecated, or gone. If the version cannot be read or parsed it reports UNKNOWN — never a clean bill of health it cannot justify.

• The connection layer recognises the failure shape. On a TrueNAS 26 box every REST path 404s; a 404 on an endpoint that exists on every REST-capable TrueNAS (e.g. /system/info, /pool) raises UnsupportedServerVersion with an explanation, instead of a pile of "resource not found — the id may be stale" errors that send you hunting a stale id that was never the problem.

If you are on 25.10.x today, this tool works — plan the 26 upgrade knowing it will stop.

Related MCP server: TrueNAS Scale MCP Server

What works

• CLI (truenas-aiops ...): init, overview, system, pool list/get/status/scrub-status/capacity/scrub-start, dataset list/get/create, diagnose pool-health/alerts, snapshot list/create/delete, disk list/smart, alert list, service list/restart, replication list/cloudsync, secret set/list/rm/migrate/rotate-password, doctor, mcp.

• MCP server (truenas-aiops mcp or truenas-aiops-mcp): 25 tools (19 read, 6 write), every one wrapped with the bundled @governed_tool harness.

• Encrypted credentials: the TrueNAS API key lives in an encrypted store ~/.truenas-aiops/secrets.enc (Fernet + scrypt) — never plaintext on disk. Unlock with a master password from TRUENAS_AIOPS_MASTER_PASSWORD (MCP/CI) or an interactive prompt (CLI).

• Reversibility: snapshot_create records an inverse snapshot_delete undo descriptor. The irreversible snapshot_delete (high risk) captures the snapshot's BEFORE state for the audit record and declares no undo.

• Safety: destructive CLI ops (snapshot delete, service restart) require double confirmation and support --dry-run.

What this tool does, and does not, decide

It delivers TrueNAS SCALE storage operations — reads and writes — accurately and efficiently, and records every one of them. It does not decide whether a write is allowed to happen. That is the agent's judgement, or the permission of the account you connect it with: scope the TrueNAS API key to a limited-privilege account and the writes fail at the appliance — the place that actually owns the permission.

So there is no read-only switch, no policy file, no approval gate to configure. The one thing the tool guarantees is that nothing is silent: every call, over MCP and over the CLI alike, lands an audit row in ~/.truenas-aiops/audit.db, and reversible writes still capture their before-state and record an inverse.

Each tool declares a risk_level, kept in agreement with its [READ]/[WRITE] documentation tag by a test, and carried into the audit row as a descriptive tier — so a reviewer can see at a glance that a row was a high-risk delete. It is a label, not a gate.

Running a smaller / local model? See agent-guardrails.md — it lists the guardrails this tool now enforces for you (so you don't spend prompt budget restating them) and gives a ready-made system prompt for what's left.

Playbook: triage a degraded pool

truenas-aiops diagnose pool-health            # worst-first: bad state, error counters, capacity
# → e.g. CRITICAL tank "pool status is DEGRADED", and "read=4 checksum=2" on a vdev
truenas-aiops pool status tank                # inspect the topology / scan detail it cited
truenas-aiops pool scrub-start tank           # kick an integrity scrub (governed, medium risk)
truenas-aiops diagnose alerts                 # cross-check active alerts + any datasets near full

Each finding cites the measured number that tripped it (status string, error counts, used-percent) so you see why it was flagged, then points at the exact read/write command to act on it.

Capability matrix (25 MCP tools)

Quick start

uv tool install truenas-aiops
truenas-aiops init        # interactive wizard: connection details + encrypted API key
truenas-aiops doctor      # verify config, encrypted store, connectivity (hits /system/info)

init writes ~/.truenas-aiops/config.yaml (non-secret connection details) and stores the API key encrypted in ~/.truenas-aiops/secrets.enc. Example config it produces:

targets:
  - name: nas1
    host: 10.0.0.30
    port: 443
    verify_ssl: false          # self-signed lab certs only
    api_path: /api/v2.0

Create the API key in the TrueNAS UI under Credentials → API Keys. For non-interactive use (MCP server, CI, cron) export the master password so the store can be unlocked without a prompt:

export TRUENAS_AIOPS_MASTER_PASSWORD='your-master-password'

Managing secrets

truenas-aiops secret set nas1             # prompts hidden for the API key
truenas-aiops secret list                 # names only, values never shown
truenas-aiops secret rm nas1
truenas-aiops secret rotate-password      # re-encrypt under a new master password
truenas-aiops secret migrate              # import a legacy plaintext .env, then deletes it

A legacy plaintext env var TRUENAS_<TARGET_NAME_UPPER>_APIKEY is still honoured as a fallback with a deprecation warning (migrate with truenas-aiops secret migrate).

支持范围 / Supported scope

Versions: TrueNAS builds that still serve the REST API v2.0 — i.e. up to and including 25.10.x, with a deprecation warning from 25.10.1. TrueNAS 26 and newer are not supported (REST removed); see Supported TrueNAS versions.

Read: system info, ZFS pools (list/get/status/scrub-status/capacity), datasets (list/get), snapshots (list), disks + S.M.A.R.T. results, alerts, services, replication & cloud-sync tasks, one-shot health overview, and read-only diagnostics / RCA (pool_health_rca, alert_and_capacity_rca). Mutating (governed, dry-run + double-confirm where destructive): pool_scrub_start, dataset_create, snapshot_create, snapshot_delete, service_restart.

缺功能？(Missing something?) Coverage is intentionally focused. Open an issue or PR at github.com/AIops-tools/TrueNAS-AIops — feature requests, contributions, and comments are all welcome.

Caveats

• TrueNAS 26 is not supported: REST v2.0 — the only transport this tool speaks — was removed in TrueNAS 26. See Supported TrueNAS versions.

• Mock-only: all behaviour is validated against mocked REST responses; not yet run against a live TrueNAS SCALE appliance. truenas-aiops doctor is the fastest live check.

• Endpoint paths (e.g. /pool/scrub/run, /zfs/snapshot/id/{id}, /smart/test/results, /alert/list) are modelled against the documented TrueNAS SCALE REST v2.0 API and need live verification.

• Out of scope by design: anything that destroys bulk data (dataset/pool deletion, replication runs that overwrite) — only snapshot_delete removes data, and it is high risk + double-confirmed.

Not for

Other NAS/storage or backup products, hypervisor VM lifecycle, container clusters, or network devices — those are out of scope for this tool.

License

MIT — github.com/AIops-tools/TrueNAS-AIops