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terms

Required

The name of the network object that must be returned from the NIOS appliance.

return_fields

Required

The list of field names to return for the specified object.

filter

Required

A dictionary object that is used to filter the returned objects.

extattrs

Optional

A dictionary object that is used to filter the returned objects according to extensible attributes.

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 to authenticate the connection to the remote instance.

• password: The password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote instance.

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

connection

Required

The nios_lookup module must be run locally.