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Summary

Synology DiskStation Manager: system and storage health, shared folders, running tasks, Download Station queue and the file station tree. Session-login auth against your own NAS.

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Example prompts for Synology DSM

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Synology DSM + Gemini

Synology DiskStation Manager: system and storage health, shared folders, running tasks, Download Station queue and the file station tree. Session-login auth against your own NAS.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

SYNOLOGY_URL, SYNOLOGY_USERNAME, SYNOLOGY_PASSWORD

Step 1 — Get credentials

Setup

In DSM create a user for the integration. Give it read access to the shared folders the agent should see and, if you want the system tools, membership of the administrators group — several SYNO.Core endpoints are admin-only.
Turn off two-factor authentication for that user, or the login call cannot complete. This is the main reason to use a dedicated account rather than your own.
Set SYNOLOGY_URL to your NAS (e.g. https://nas.example.com:5001, no trailing slash), plus SYNOLOGY_USERNAME and SYNOLOGY_PASSWORD.

…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Gemini

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Gemini CLI reads MCP servers from ~/.gemini/settings.json (or %APPDATA%\gemini\settings.json on Windows). Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "httpUrl": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Get your MCP API key from AnythingMCP → MCP Servers → your server → API keys.
Save the file and restart gemini.
Run /mcp inside the Gemini CLI — Synology DSM should be listed as available.
Vertex AI Studio: pass https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID to the tools array of your request with the same X-API-Key header.

Available tools

Tool	What it does
`synology_list_apis`	List the Web APIs this DSM publishes, with the version range and CGI path of each
`synology_get_system_info`	Read the NAS's system information: model, serial number, DSM version, uptime, CPU and total memory
`synology_get_system_utilization`	Read live utilisation: CPU load, memory in use, disk throughput and network throughput right now
`synology_list_storage`	Read the storage overview: every volume and disk with its size, used space, filesystem and SMART health status
`synology_list_shares`	List the shared folders with their name, path, description and whether each is encrypted — the map of what is on the NAS
`synology_list_files`	List the files and folders under one path in File Station, with their size, type and modification time
`synology_search_files`	Start a File Station search under one path for a filename pattern
`synology_list_download_tasks`	List the Download Station queue with each task's title, status, size, progress and speed — what the NAS is currently fetching
`synology_list_users`	List the DSM user accounts with their name, description, e-mail and whether each is expired or disabled
`synology_get_search_results`	Read the files matched by a search started with synology_search_files: name, real path, size and times

FAQ

Does Gemini 1.5 Pro or 2.x support MCP? Yes — Gemini CLI ≥ 0.4 and Vertex AI tools API both accept MCP httpUrl connectors with custom headers.

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How to Connect Synology DSM to Gemini — via MCP

Example prompts for Synology DSM

Synology DSM + Gemini

Prerequisites

Step 1 — Get credentials

Step 2 — Install the adapter

Step 3 — Add the connector in Gemini

Available tools

FAQ

Next steps

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