# CreateTrafficMirrorTarget
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Creates a target for your Traffic Mirror session.

A Traffic Mirror target is the destination for mirrored traffic. The Traffic Mirror source and the Traffic Mirror target (monitoring appliances) can be in the same VPC, or in different VPCs connected via VPC peering or a transit gateway.

A Traffic Mirror target can be a network interface, a Network Load Balancer, or a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint.

To use the target in a Traffic Mirror session, use [CreateTrafficMirrorSession](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_CreateTrafficMirrorSession.htm).

## Request Parameters
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The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Query Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

 **ClientToken**   
Unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. For more information, see [How to ensure idempotency](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ec2/latest/devguide/ec2-api-idempotency.html).  
Type: String  
Required: No

 **Description**   
The description of the Traffic Mirror target.  
Type: String  
Required: No

 **DryRun**   
Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is `DryRunOperation`. Otherwise, it is `UnauthorizedOperation`.  
Type: Boolean  
Required: No

 **GatewayLoadBalancerEndpointId**   
The ID of the Gateway Load Balancer endpoint.  
Type: String  
Required: No

 **NetworkInterfaceId**   
The network interface ID that is associated with the target.  
Type: String  
Required: No

 **NetworkLoadBalancerArn**   
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Network Load Balancer that is associated with the target.  
Type: String  
Required: No

 **TagSpecification.N**   
The tags to assign to the Traffic Mirror target.  
Type: Array of [TagSpecification](API_TagSpecification.md) objects  
Required: No

## Response Elements
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The following elements are returned by the service.

 **clientToken**   
Unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. For more information, see [How to ensure idempotency](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ec2/latest/devguide/ec2-api-idempotency.html).  
Type: String

 **requestId**   
The ID of the request.  
Type: String

 **trafficMirrorTarget**   
Information about the Traffic Mirror target.  
Type: [TrafficMirrorTarget](API_TrafficMirrorTarget.md) object

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common client error codes](errors-overview.md#CommonErrors).

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following:
+  [Amazon Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/cli2/ec2-2016-11-15/CreateTrafficMirrorTarget) 
+  [Amazon SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/DotNetSDKV4/ec2-2016-11-15/CreateTrafficMirrorTarget) 
+  [Amazon SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForCpp/ec2-2016-11-15/CreateTrafficMirrorTarget) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Go v2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForGoV2/ec2-2016-11-15/CreateTrafficMirrorTarget) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Java V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaV2/ec2-2016-11-15/CreateTrafficMirrorTarget) 
+  [Amazon SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/ec2-2016-11-15/CreateTrafficMirrorTarget) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForKotlin/ec2-2016-11-15/CreateTrafficMirrorTarget) 
+  [Amazon SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForPHPV3/ec2-2016-11-15/CreateTrafficMirrorTarget) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Python](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/boto3/ec2-2016-11-15/CreateTrafficMirrorTarget) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForRubyV3/ec2-2016-11-15/CreateTrafficMirrorTarget)