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title: "Creating a Network View in NIOS"
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<span style="color: #000000">You can create a network view in a NIOS appliance using </span>`infoblox_network_view`<span style="color: #000000"> resource block.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">All the parameters used to create a network view are required. If you do not create a network view, it uses the optional parameters and will reside under the default network view.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">The following table describes the parameters used to create a network view:</span>

| **<span style="color: #000000">Sr. No</span>** | **<span style="color: #000000">Parameter</span>** | **<span style="color: #000000">Mandatory/</span>**  
**<span style="color: #000000">Optional</span>** | **<span style="color: #000000">DescriptionYou have to reserve the first four IP addresses</span>** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| <span style="color: #000000">1</span> | <span style="color: #000000">network_view_name</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Required</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Specifies the desired name of the network view, as shown in the NIOS appliance.</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">2</span> | <span style="color: #000000">tenant_id</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Required</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Specifies the unique identifier of the tenant in the cloud.</span><br><span style="color: #000000">Tenant ID is the name of the cloud provider with which you want to integrate. However, if there is no cloud provider, you can specify any dummy value.</span><br><span style="color: #000000">The tenant ID differentiates the cloud providers in NIOS. For more information, see </span>[<u>*<span style="color: #000000">Viewing All Tenants</span>*</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/nios85/pages/35386136)<span style="color: #000000">.</span> |

## <span style="color: #000000">Example for Creating a Network View in NIOS Appliance</span>

<span style="color: #000000">To create a network view in NIOS appliance using the </span>`infoblox_network_view`<span style="color: #000000"> resource block, see the following example:</span>

`resource "infoblox_network_view" "demo_network_view"`

`{`

`network_view_name="demo1"`

`tenant_id="test"`

`}`