Testing your server with MCP Inspector

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MCP Inspector was developed by Anthropic to support the testing of servers. It provides a GUI for you to connect to your server and make tool and prompt calls. All developers should use this for initial testing of tools ad prompts.

Step 0 - In a terminal move into teradata-mcp-server directory From a terminal and start the server.

cd teradata-mcp-server
uv run src/teradata_mcp_server

Step 1 - In a second terminal start the inspector, type the following in your terminal The MCP inspector provides you with a convenient way to browse and test tools, resources and prompts:

You can use the inspector to directly run the MCP server and connect over stdio:

Using the development environment:

 npx modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run teradata-mcp-server

Using the installed package:

 npx modelcontextprotocol/inspector teradata-mcp-server

You may also run the MCP server as a separate process and connect to it form the inspector over http:

uv run teradata-mcp-server --mcp_transport streamable-http
npx modelcontextprotocol/inspector

NOTE: If you are running this on a Windows machine and get npx, npm or node.js errors, install the required node.js software from here: https://github.com/nodists/nodist

Step 2 - Open the MCP Inspector

• You should open the inspector tool, go to http://127.0.0.1:6274
• Click on tools
• Click on list tools
• Click on base_databaseList
• Click on run

Test the other tools, each should have a successful outcome

Control+c to stop the server in the terminal