Querying Security Groups¶

Function¶

After a security group is created, you can call this API to query all information about the security group, including the name, ID, and description.

Constraints¶

You can query all security groups under your account. A maximum of 2,000 records can be returned for each query. If the number of records exceeds 2,000, the pagination marker will be returned.

URI¶

GET /v3/{project_id}/vpc/security-groups

**Table 1** Path Parameters¶
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Definition: ID of the project that a security group belongs to. Range: None

**Table 2** Query Parameters¶
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
limit	No	Integer	Definition: Number of resources returned on each page. Range: 0-2000
marker	No	String	Definition: ID of the resource from which the pagination query starts. If the parameter is left blank, only resources on the first page are queried. Range: Security group ID.
id	No	Array of strings	Definition: ID of a security group. This field can be used to precisely filter security groups. Multiple IDs can be specified for filtering. Range: None
name	No	Array of strings	Definition: Name of a security group. This field can be used to precisely filter security groups. Multiple names can be specified for filtering. Range: None
description	No	Array of strings	Definition: Description of a security group. This field can be used to precisely filter security groups. Multiple descriptions can be specified for filtering. Range: None
enterprise_project_id	No	String	Definition: ID of the enterprise project that a security group belongs to. This field can be used to filter the security groups associated with an enterprise project. Range: The value is 0 or a string that contains a maximum of 36 characters in UUID format with hyphens (-). 0 indicates the default enterprise project. To obtain the security groups associated with all enterprise projects that a user has permissions to view, specify all_granted_eps.
project_id	No	Array of strings	Definition: ID of the project that a security group belongs to. Range: None

Request Parameters¶

None

Response Parameters¶

Status code: 200

**Table 3** Response body parameters¶
Parameter	Type	Description
security_groups	Array of SecurityGroup objects	Definition: Response body for querying security groups. Range: None
request_id	String	Definition: Request ID. Range: None
page_info	PageInfo object	Definition: Pagination information. Range: None

**Table 4** SecurityGroup¶
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Definition: ID of a security group. After a security group is created, a security group ID is generated, which uniquely identifies the security group. Range: The value is in UUID format with hyphens (-).
name	String	Definition: Name of a security group. Range: The value can contain 1 to 64 characters, including letters, digits, underscores (_), hyphens (-), and periods (.).
description	String	Definition: Description of a security group. Range: The value can contain no more than 255 characters and cannot contain angle brackets (< or >).
project_id	String	Definition: ID of the project that a security group belongs to. Range: None
created_at	String	Definition: Time when a security group was created. Range: UTC time in the format of yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ
updated_at	String	Definition: Time when a security group was updated. Range: UTC time in the format of yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ
enterprise_project_id	String	Definition: ID of the enterprise project that a security group belongs to. Range: The value is 0 or a string that contains a maximum of 36 characters in UUID format with hyphens (-). 0 indicates the default enterprise project.
tags	Array of ResponseTag objects	Definition: Tags of a security group, including tag keys and tag values, which can be used to classify and identify resources. For details, see the tag objects. Range: None

**Table 5** ResponseTag¶
Parameter	Type	Description
key	String	Definition: Tag key. Range: Each key can contain up to 36 Unicode characters and cannot be left blank. Each key value of a resource must be unique. The value can contain: Letters Digits Special characters: underscores (_) ,at signs (@), and hyphens (-)
value	String	Definition: Tag value. Range: Each value can contain up to 43 Unicode characters and can be left blank. The value can contain: Letters Digits Special characters: underscore (_), at signs (@), and hyphen (-)

**Table 6** PageInfo¶
Parameter	Type	Description
previous_marker	String	Definition: The first record on the current page. Range: None
current_count	Integer	Definition: Total number of records on the current page. Range: None
next_marker	String	Definition: The last record on the current page. The parameter next_marker does not exist if the page is the last one. Range: None

Example Requests¶

Querying security groups

GET https://{Endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/vpc/security-groups

Example Responses¶

Status code: 200

Normal response to the GET operation. For more status codes, see Status Codes.

{
  "request_id" : "d31cb32ca06f3c1a294fa24e6cbc5a56",
  "security_groups" : [ {
    "id" : "0552091e-b83a-49dd-88a7-4a5c86fd9ec3",
    "name" : "sg-test",
    "project_id" : "060576782980d5762f9ec014dd2f1148",
    "description" : "test",
    "enterprise_project_id" : 0,
    "created_at" : "2019-10-16T11:11:14.000+00:00",
    "updated_at" : "2020-03-25T10:53:46.000+00:00",
    "tags" : [ ]
  }, {
    "id" : "0b8cb773-197c-4c91-94f1-e051f0563e5a",
    "name" : "test-sg",
    "project_id" : "060576782980d5762f9ec014dd2f1148",
    "description" : "The security group is for general-purpose web servers and includes default rules that allow all inbound ICMP traffic and allow inbound traffic on ports 22, 3389, 80, and 443. This security group is suitable for ECSs that require remote login, public network ping, and website services.",
    "enterprise_project_id" : 0,
    "created_at" : "2019-12-03T09:02:11.000+00:00",
    "updated_at" : "2019-12-03T09:02:11.000+00:00",
    "tags" : [ ]
  } ],
  "page_info" : {
    "previous_marker" : "0552091e-b83a-49dd-88a7-4a5c86fd9ec3",
    "current_count" : 2
  }
}

Status Codes¶

Status Code	Description
200	Normal response to the GET operation. For more status codes, see Status Codes.

Error Codes¶

See Error Codes.

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