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Required

Specifies the CIDR network to retrieve the next address or set of addresses from.

network_view

Optional

Specifies the network view from which to retrieve the next available IP address.
If a value is not specified, the default network view configured in NIOS is used.

num

Optional

Specifies the number of IP addresses to return. The default value is 1.

exclude

Optional

Specifies the list of IP addresses to be excluded from the returned IP addresses.

provider

Required

Defines the details of the connection:

• host: The DNS host name or IP address to connect to the remote instance of NIOS.

• username: The user name to use for authenticating the connection to the remote instance.

• password: The password to use for authenticating the connection to the remote instance.

For information on additional fields you can define, see the list of subparameters in the NIOS Modules for Ansible Collections topic.

connection

Required

The nios_next_ip module must be run locally.