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title: "infoblox_network_view Resource"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/ipamdriverterraform/53055807/infoblox_network_view%20Resource"
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<span style="color: #000000">The </span>`infoblox_network_view`<span style="color: #000000"> resource enables you to perform create and update operations on network views in a NIOS appliance. The resource represents the ‘networkview’ WAPI object in NIOS.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">The following table describes the parameters you can define in the </span>`infoblox_network_view`<span style="color: #000000"> resource block:</span>

| <span style="color: #000000">**Parameter**</span> | <span style="color: #000000">**Required/Optional**</span> | <span style="color: #000000">**Description**</span> |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | <span style="color: #000000">Required</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Specifies the desired name of the network view as shown in the NIOS appliance. The name has the same requirements as the corresponding parameter in WAPI.</span> |
| `comment` | <span style="color: #000000">Optional</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Describes the network view.</span> |
| `ext_attrs` | <span style="color: #000000">Optional</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Specifies the set of NIOS extensible attributes that will be attached to the network view.</span> |

> ⚠️ **Note**
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ Once the network view is created, you cannot change the `name` parameter. You can modify or even remove the `comment` and `ext_attrs` parameters from the resource block.

## <span style="color: #000000">Example of Network View Resource</span>

`//minimal set of parameters required to create a network view resource`  
`resource "infoblox_network_view" "nv1" {`  
 `   name = "network view 1"`  
`}`


`resource "infoblox_network_view" "netview1234" {`  
 `   name = "one_more_network_view"`  
 `   comment = "example network view"`  
 `   ext_attrs = jsonencode({`  
 `     "Location" = "the North pole"`  
 `     "Tenant ID" = "tf-plugin"`  
 `     "Cloud API Owned" = "True"`  
 `     "CMP Type"= "VMware"`  
 `     "Site" = "Nevada`  
 `   })`  
`}`