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title: "Configuring VLAN Views"
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You can create a VLAN view and group VLAN objects and VLAN ranges into that VLAN view. A VLAN view allows you to view grouped VLANs in an hierarchical format.

A VLAN view named **default** is automatically created for all NIOS installations starting from NIOS 8.4 and upgrades from earlier versions.

# Viewing a VLAN View

To view the list of VLAN views, perform the following steps:

1. <span style="color: #333333">From the </span>**Data Management**<span style="color: #333333"> tab, click the </span>**VLANs**<span style="color: #333333"> tab</span><span style="color: #000000">. A list of all the VLAN views is displayed. </span><span style="color: #333333">The </span><span style="color: #000000">following details of the VLAN view are displayed:</span>
  - **<span style="color: #000000">Name</span>**<span style="color: #000000">: Name of the VLAN view</span>
  - **Start VLAN ID**: Integer from which the VLAN ID can start.
  - **<span style="color: #333333">End VLAN ID</span>**<span style="color: #333333">: Integer till which the VLAN ID can end. </span>
  - **<span style="color: #000000">Comment</span>**<span style="color: #000000">: Information for the VLAN view if any.</span>
  - **<span style="color: #000000">Allow Range Overlapping</span>**<span style="color: #000000">: Whether VLAN ranges with overlapping VLAN IDs are allowed in the VLAN view. For information about overlapping VLAN IDs, see </span><span style="color: #0000ff">[*Allow VLAN Range Overlapping*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/nios85draft/pages/26478214)</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
  - **<span style="color: #000000">Site</span>**<span style="color: #000000">: Extensible attribute for the VLAN view.</span>
2. Click a VLAN view name to view all the VLAN objects and VLAN ranges that belong to the VLAN view.

# Adding a VLAN View

To add a VLAN view:

1. From the **Data Management** tab, click the **VLANs** tab.
2. From the Toolbar, click **Add**-> **VLAN View**. The *Add VLAN Wizard* dialog box is displayed.
3. <span style="color: #000000">In </span><span style="color: #000000">the </span>**VLAN View Name **<span style="color: #000000">field, enter a name for the VLAN view. </span>
4. In the **Start VLAN ID** field, enter the minimum <span style="color: #000000">ID that can be used by a child VLAN range or VLAN object. </span>VLANs can acquire an ID that is in between the values you enter in the <span style="color: #333333">**Start VLAN ID**</span> and <span style="color: #333333">**End VLAN ID**</span> fields. <span style="color: #333333">The VLAN ID must be </span><span style="color: #000000"> greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 4094. A VLAN ID is unique. No VLAN object can share the same VLAN ID.</span>
5. <span style="color: #333333">In the </span>**<span style="color: #333333">End VLAN ID</span>**<span style="color: #333333"> field, enter the </span><span style="color: #333333">maximum </span><span style="color: #000000">ID that can be used by a child VLAN range or VLAN object</span><span style="color: #333333">. </span><span style="color: #333333">The VLAN ID must be </span><span style="color: #000000"> greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 4094. </span><span style="color: #000000">A VLAN ID is unique. No VLAN object can share the same VLAN ID.</span>
6. <span style="color: #000000">Select the </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Pre-create VLANs</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> checkbox if you want NIOS to automatically create VLANs. When you select this checkbox, </span><span style="color: #000000">the </span>**<span style="color: #000000">VLAN Name Prefix</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> field becomes enabled and </span><span style="color: #000000">NIOS creates VLANs between the range you specified in the </span>**<span style="color: #333333">Start VLAN ID</span>**<span style="color: #333333"> and </span><span style="color: #333333">**End VLAN ID**</span><span style="color: #333333"> fields</span><span style="color: #000000">. You cannot edit </span><span style="color: #333333">the </span>**<span style="color: #333333">Pre-create VLANs</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> checkbox</span><span style="color: #333333">.</span>
7. In the **VLAN Name Prefix** field, enter a prefix that will be added to the VLAN name. The VLAN name is constructed using the following pattern: `<VLAN Prefix Name> + <VLAN ID>` (the VLAN ID is optionally prefixed with zeros). VLANs are automatically created with the prefix name and VLAN ID. You cannot edit <span style="color: #333333">the </span>**VLAN Name Prefix**<span style="color: #333333"> field.</span>
8. > Macro (anchor)

<span style="color: #333333">Select the </span>**Allow VLAN Range Overlapping**<span style="color: #333333"> checkbox if you want to allow different VLAN ranges in the same VLAN view to have overlapping start and end VLAN IDs. Overlapping VLAN ranges will have unique VLAN IDs. For example, if you create a VLAN view with two ranges from 1 to 15 and from 2 to 18, and a VLAN object with ID 14  under the first range, the VLAN object will belong to both VLAN range 1 and VLAN range 2. However, its parent VLAN range is the range under which it was created; in this case, the first VLAN range. The parent VLAN range is displayed in the </span>**<span style="color: #333333">Parent VLAN Range</span>**<span style="color: #333333"> column when viewing a VLAN range details.  If </span><span style="color: #000000">there are overlapping ranges in a VLAN view, you cannot disable the checkbox. If you want to disable the checkbox, you must reconfigure the VLAN ranges to avoid conflicts and then disable the option.</span>
9. In the **Comment** field, enter comments if any.
10. <span style="color: #000000">Click </span>**Next**<span style="color: #000000"> to define extensible attributes.</span> For more information, see <span style="color: #0000ff">[*Managing Extensible Attributes*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/nios85/pages/35448912)</span>.
11. Click **Save & Close** to save your configuration.

# Editing a VLAN View

To edit the details of a VLAN view:

1. <span style="color: #333333">From the </span>**Data Management**<span style="color: #333333"> tab, click the </span>**VLANs**<span style="color: #333333"> tab.</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">Select the VLAN view that you want to edit, select the Action icon and click </span>**Edit**<span style="color: #000000">. </span>  
**<span style="color: #000000">Note:</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> C</span><span style="color: #000000">hanging the start or end VLAN ID values in a VLAN view may lead to errors. For example, if the VLAN IDs of a VLAN view are from 1 to 5, you cannot change them to 1 to 2 in case there is a child VLAN with ID 3 or 4 or 5 in the VLAN view. </span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">Edit the details as required. </span>
4. <span style="color: #000000">Click </span>**<span style="color: #333333">Save & Close</span>**<span style="color: #000000">.</span>

# Deleting a VLAN View

<span style="color: #000000">You cannot delete a VLAN view that contains VLANs assigned to a network. </span>To delete a VLAN view:

1. <span style="color: #333333">From the </span>**Data Management**<span style="color: #333333"> tab, click the </span>**VLANs**<span style="color: #333333"> tab.</span>
2. <span style="color: #333333">Select the VLAN view that you want to delete, select the Action icon and click </span>**Delete**<span style="color: #333333">.</span>
3. <span style="color: #333333">Click </span>**<span style="color: #333333">Yes</span>**<span style="color: #333333"> in the </span>*<span style="color: #333333">Delete Confirmation</span>*<span style="color: #333333"> dialog box.</span>

> ⚠️ **Note**
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ <span style="color: #000000">When you delete a VLAN view, </span>all child VLANs and ranges <span style="color: #000000">will also be deleted.</span>