Describes the basic information about your security groups, such as the security group ID and description. We return and display your security groups in a descending order by the security group ID.

Request parameters

Name Type Required Description
Action String Yes The name of this interface. Value: DescribeSecurityGroups.
RegionId String Yes Regional ID. For more information, call DescribeRegions to obtain the latest region list.
VpcId String No The ID of the VPC to which the security groups belong.
SecurityGroupIds Array No Security group ID set. A maximum of 100 ID are supported, in the format of ["sg-Id1", "sg-Id2",  "sg-Id3"…].
Tag.n.Key String No The key of a tag of which n is from 1 to 20. Once you use this parameter, it cannot be a null string. It can be up to 64 characters in length. It cannot begin with "aliyun", "acs:", "http://", or "https://".
Tag.n.Value String No The value of a tag of which n is a number from 1 to 20. Once you use this parameter, it can be a null string. It can be up to 128 characters in length. It cannot begin with "aliyun", "acs:", "http://", or "https://".
PageNumber Integer No Displays the security groups on several pages. Initial value: 1.

Default value: 1.
PageSize Integer No The maximum entries on a page. Maximum value: 50.

Default value: 10.

Response parameters

Name Type Description
TotalCount Integer The total number of security groups.
PageNumber Integer Current page number.
PageSize Integer The number of entries on each page.
RegionId String The region ID.
SecurityGroups SecurityGroupItemType The security group information, composed by a SecurityGroupItemType collection.

Examples

Request example 
https://ecs.aliyuncs.com/?Action=DescribeSecurityGroups
&RegionId=cn-hangzhou
&<Common Request Parameters>
Return example

XML format

<DescribeSecurityGroupsResponse>
    <RequestId>94D38899-626D-434A-891F-7E1F77A81525</RequestId>
    <TotalCount>4</TotalCount>
    <PageNumber>1</PageNumber>
    <PageSize>10</PageSize>
    <RegionId>cn-hangzhou</RegionId>
    <SecurityGroups>
        <SecurityGroup>
            <SecurityGroupId>sg-F876FF7BA</SecurityGroupId>
            <Description>Test</Description>
        </SecurityGroup>
        <SecurityGroup>
            <SecurityGroupId>sg-086FFC27A</SecurityGroupId>
            <Description>test00212</Description>
        </SecurityGroup>
        <SecurityGroup>
            <SecurityGroupId>sg-BA4B7975B</SecurityGroupId>
            <Description>cn-hangzhou test group</Description>
        </SecurityGroup>
        <SecurityGroup>
            <SecurityGroupId>sg-35F20777C</SecurityGroupId>
            <Description>cn-hangzhou test group</Description>
        </SecurityGroup>
    </SecurityGroups>
</DescribeSecurityGroupsResponse>
JSON format 
{
    "RequestId": "94D38899-626D-434A-891F-7E1F77A81525",
    "TotalCount": 4,
    "PageSize": "10",
    "RegionId": "cn-hangzhou",
    "PageNumber": "1",
    "SecurityGroups": {
        "SecurityGroup": [{
            "SecurityGroupId": "sg-F876FF7BA",
            "Description": "TestByXcf"
        },
        {
            "SecurityGroupId": "sg-086FFC27A",
            "Description": "test00212"
        },
        {
            "SecurityGroupId": "sg-BA4B7975B",
            "Description": "cn-hangzhou test group"
        },
        {
            "SecurityGroupId": "sg-35F20777C",
            "Description": "cn-hangzhou test group"
        }]
    }
}

Error codes

All are common response parameters. See Common response parameters.