Network Watchers - Create Or Update

PUT https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rg1/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkWatchers/nw1?api-version=2025-03-01

{
  "location": "eastus",
  "properties": {}
}

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

from azure.mgmt.network import NetworkManagementClient

"""
# PREREQUISITES
    pip install azure-identity
    pip install azure-mgmt-network
# USAGE
    python network_watcher_create.py

    Before run the sample, please set the values of the client ID, tenant ID and client secret
    of the AAD application as environment variables: AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID,
    AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET. For more info about how to get the value, please see:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal
"""


def main():
    client = NetworkManagementClient(
        credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
        subscription_id="subid",
    )

    response = client.network_watchers.create_or_update(
        resource_group_name="rg1",
        network_watcher_name="nw1",
        parameters={"location": "eastus", "properties": {}},
    )
    print(response)


# x-ms-original-file: specification/network/resource-manager/Microsoft.Network/stable/2025-03-01/examples/NetworkWatcherCreate.json
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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const { NetworkManagementClient } = require("@azure/arm-network");
const { DefaultAzureCredential } = require("@azure/identity");
require("dotenv/config");

/**
 * This sample demonstrates how to Creates or updates a network watcher in the specified resource group.
 *
 * @summary Creates or updates a network watcher in the specified resource group.
 * x-ms-original-file: specification/network/resource-manager/Microsoft.Network/stable/2025-03-01/examples/NetworkWatcherCreate.json
 */
async function createNetworkWatcher() {
  const subscriptionId = process.env["NETWORK_SUBSCRIPTION_ID"] || "subid";
  const resourceGroupName = process.env["NETWORK_RESOURCE_GROUP"] || "rg1";
  const networkWatcherName = "nw1";
  const parameters = { location: "eastus" };
  const credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
  const client = new NetworkManagementClient(credential, subscriptionId);
  const result = await client.networkWatchers.createOrUpdate(
    resourceGroupName,
    networkWatcherName,
    parameters,
  );
  console.log(result);
}

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using Azure;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Azure.Core;
using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Resources;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Network;

// Generated from example definition: specification/network/resource-manager/Microsoft.Network/stable/2025-03-01/examples/NetworkWatcherCreate.json
// this example is just showing the usage of "NetworkWatchers_CreateOrUpdate" operation, for the dependent resources, they will have to be created separately.

// get your azure access token, for more details of how Azure SDK get your access token, please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/azure/sdk/authentication?tabs=command-line
TokenCredential cred = new DefaultAzureCredential();
// authenticate your client
ArmClient client = new ArmClient(cred);

// this example assumes you already have this ResourceGroupResource created on azure
// for more information of creating ResourceGroupResource, please refer to the document of ResourceGroupResource
string subscriptionId = "subid";
string resourceGroupName = "rg1";
ResourceIdentifier resourceGroupResourceId = ResourceGroupResource.CreateResourceIdentifier(subscriptionId, resourceGroupName);
ResourceGroupResource resourceGroupResource = client.GetResourceGroupResource(resourceGroupResourceId);

// get the collection of this NetworkWatcherResource
NetworkWatcherCollection collection = resourceGroupResource.GetNetworkWatchers();

// invoke the operation
string networkWatcherName = "nw1";
NetworkWatcherData data = new NetworkWatcherData
{
    Location = new AzureLocation("eastus"),
};
ArmOperation<NetworkWatcherResource> lro = await collection.CreateOrUpdateAsync(WaitUntil.Completed, networkWatcherName, data);
NetworkWatcherResource result = lro.Value;

// the variable result is a resource, you could call other operations on this instance as well
// but just for demo, we get its data from this resource instance
NetworkWatcherData resourceData = result.Data;
// for demo we just print out the id
Console.WriteLine($"Succeeded on id: {resourceData.Id}");

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