# azure_rm_networkinterface_info – Get network interface facts

New in version 2.9.

- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Notes
- See Also
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## Synopsis

- Get facts for a specific network interface or all network interfaces within a resource group.

Aliases: azure_rm_networkinterface_facts

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 2.7
- azure >= 2.0.0

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
ad_user string |  | Active Directory username. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.
adfs_authority_url string added in 2.6 |  | Azure AD authority url. Use when authenticating with Username/password, and has your own ADFS authority.
api_profile string added in 2.5 | Default: "latest" | Selects an API profile to use when communicating with Azure services. Default value of `latest` is appropriate for public clouds; future values will allow use with Azure Stack.

auth_source
string
added in 2.5

Choices:
- auto
- cli
- credential_file
- env
- msi

Controls the source of the credentials to use for authentication.
If not specified, ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE environment variable will be used and default to `auto` if variable is not defined.
`auto` will follow the default precedence of module parameters -> environment variables -> default profile in credential file `~/.azure/credentials`.
When set to `cli`, the credentials will be sources from the default Azure CLI profile.
Can also be set via the `ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE` environment variable.
When set to `msi`, the host machine must be an azure resource with an enabled MSI extension. `subscription_id` or the environment variable `AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID` can be used to identify the subscription ID if the resource is granted access to more than one subscription, otherwise the first subscription is chosen.
The `msi` was added in Ansible 2.6.

cert_validation_mode
string
added in 2.5

Choices:
- ignore
- validate

Controls the certificate validation behavior for Azure endpoints. By default, all modules will validate the server certificate, but when an HTTPS proxy is in use, or against Azure Stack, it may be necessary to disable this behavior by passing `ignore`. Can also be set via credential file profile or the `AZURE_CERT_VALIDATION` environment variable.

client_id string |  | Azure client ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
cloud_environment string added in 2.4 | Default: "AzureCloud" | For cloud environments other than the US public cloud, the environment name (as defined by Azure Python SDK, eg, `AzureChinaCloud`, `AzureUSGovernment`), or a metadata discovery endpoint URL (required for Azure Stack). Can also be set via credential file profile or the `AZURE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT` environment variable.
name - |  | Only show results for a specific network interface.
password string |  | Active Directory user password. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.
profile string |  | Security profile found in ~/.azure/credentials file.
resource_group - |  | Name of the resource group containing the network interface(s). Required when searching by name.
secret string |  | Azure client secret. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
subscription_id string |  | Your Azure subscription Id.
tags - |  | Limit results by providing a list of tags. Format tags as 'key' or 'key:value'.
tenant string |  | Azure tenant ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

## Notes

Note

- For authentication with Azure you can pass parameters, set environment variables, use a profile stored in ~/.azure/credentials, or log in before you run your tasks or playbook with `az login`.
- Authentication is also possible using a service principal or Active Directory user.
- To authenticate via service principal, pass subscription_id, client_id, secret and tenant or set environment variables AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_SECRET and AZURE_TENANT.
- To authenticate via Active Directory user, pass ad_user and password, or set AZURE_AD_USER and AZURE_PASSWORD in the environment.
- Alternatively, credentials can be stored in ~/.azure/credentials. This is an ini file containing a [default] section and the following keys: subscription_id, client_id, secret and tenant or subscription_id, ad_user and password. It is also possible to add additional profiles. Specify the profile by passing profile or setting AZURE_PROFILE in the environment.

## See Also

See also

Sign in with Azure CLI
  How to authenticate using the `az login` command.

## Examples

    - name: Get facts for one network interface
      azure_rm_networkinterface_info:
        resource_group: myResourceGroup
        name: nic001

    - name: Get network interfaces within a resource group
      azure_rm_networkinterface_info:
        resource_group: myResourceGroup

    - name: Get network interfaces by tag
      azure_rm_networkinterface_info:
        resource_group: myResourceGroup
        tags:
          - testing
          - foo:bar

## Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
azure_networkinterfaces list | always | List of network interface dicts.
networkinterfaces list | always | List of network interface dicts. Each dict contains parameters can be passed to azure_rm_networkinterface module.
| create_with_security_group boolean |  | Specifies whether a default security group should be be created with the NIC. Only applies when creating a new NIC.
| dns_servers - |  | Which DNS servers should the NIC lookup. List of IP addresses.
| dns_settings - |  | The DNS settings in network interface.
|  | applied_dns_servers - |  | If the VM that uses this NIC is part of an Availability Set, then this list will have the union of all DNS servers from all NICs that are part of the Availability Set. This property is what is configured on each of those VMs.
|  | dns_servers - |  | List of DNS servers IP addresses.
|  | internal_dns_name_label - |  | Relative DNS name for this NIC used for internal communications between VMs in the same virtual network.
|  | internal_fqdn - |  | Fully qualified DNS name supporting internal communications between VMs in the same virtual network.
| enable_accelerated_networking - |  | Specifies whether the network interface should be created with the accelerated networking feature or not.
| enable_ip_forwarding - |  | Whether to enable IP forwarding
| id - |  | Id of the network interface.
| ip_configurations - |  | List of IP configurations, if contains multiple configurations.
|  | application_security_groups - |  | List of Application security groups. Sample: /subscriptions/<subsid>/resourceGroups/<rg>/providers/Microsoft.Network/applicationSecurityGroups/myASG
|  | load_balancer_backend_address_pools - |  | List of existing load-balancer backend address pools to associate with the network interface.
|  | name - |  | Name of the IP configuration.
|  | primary - |  | Whether the IP configuration is the primary one in the list.
|  | private_ip_address - |  | Private IP address for the IP configuration.
|  | private_ip_allocation_method - |  | Private IP allocation method.
|  | public_ip_address - |  | Name of the public IP address. None for disable IP address.
|  | public_ip_allocation_method - |  | Public IP allocation method.
| location - |  | Azure location.
| mac_address - |  | The MAC address of the network interface.
| name - |  | Name of the network interface.
| provisioning_state - |  | The provisioning state of the network interface.
| resource_group - |  | Name of a resource group where the network interface exists.
| security_group - |  | A security group resource ID with which to associate the network interface.
| subnet - |  | Name of an existing subnet within the specified virtual network.
| tags - |  | Tags of the network interface.
| virtual_network - |  | An existing virtual network with which the network interface will be associated. It is a dict which contains name and resource_group of the virtual network.

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Chris Houseknecht (@chouseknecht)
- Matt Davis (@nitzmahone)

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