---
title: "setTarget"
slug: "networking-vloadbalancer-targetgroup-settarget"
updated: 2026-09-17T10:12:30Z
published: 2026-09-17T10:12:30Z
canonical: "api.ncloud-docs.com/networking-vloadbalancer-targetgroup-settarget"
---

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# setTarget

Available in VPC

Set a target that will be applied to a target group. Regardless of any previously applied target lists, only the newly specified target number list will be bound, and if no target number list is specified, all existing bound target lists are removed.

### Request headers

For information about the headers common to all Load Balancer APIs, see [Load Balancer request headers](/docs/en/networking-vloadbalancer#%EC%9A%94%EC%B2%AD%ED%97%A4%EB%8D%94).

### Request query parameters

You can use the following query parameters with your request:

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `regionCode` | String | Optional | Region code for the target group to which you want to bind the target - First Region of the getRegionList search result (default) - See [getRegionList](/docs/en/compute-vserver-server-common-getregionlist) |
| `targetGroupNo` | String | Required | Target group number - See [getTargetGroupList](/docs/en/networking-vloadbalancer-targetgroup-gettargetgrouplist) |
| `targetNoList.N` | List[String] | Optional | List of target numbers to bind - If you don't specify a list of target numbers, all existing bound target lists are removed - `targetNo` can be obtained through `targetTypeCode` - <E.g.> targetNoList.1=1234&targetNoList.2=2345 |
| `responseFormatType` | String | Optional | Response result format - `xml` (default) \| `json` |

### Request example

The following is a sample request.

```
curl --location 'https://ncloud.apigw.ntruss.com/vloadbalancer/v2/setTarget?regionCode=KR&targetGroupNo=*******&targetNoList.1=********' \
--header 'x-ncp-apigw-timestamp: {Timestamp}' \
--header 'x-ncp-iam-access-key: {Access Key}' \
--header 'x-ncp-apigw-signature-v2: {API Gateway Signature}'
```

## Response

The following describes the response format.

### Response body

See [TargetList](/docs/en/common-vapidatatype-targetlist) for the response body.

### Response status codes

For information about the HTTP status codes common to all Load Balancer APIs, see [Load Balancer response status codes](/docs/en/networking-vloadbalancer#%EC%9D%91%EB%8B%B5%EC%83%81%ED%83%9C%EC%BD%94%EB%93%9C).

### Response example

The following is a sample response.

```
<setTargetResponse>
    <requestId>6fbfbb6b-3ae7-4637-baba-521e1866108f</requestId>
    <returnCode>0</returnCode>
    <returnMessage>success</returnMessage>
    <totalRows>1</totalRows>
    <targetList>
        <target>
            <targetNo>********</targetNo>
            <targetName>YOUR_TARGET</targetName>
            <targetIp>***.***.*.*</targetIp>
            <healthCheckStatus>
                <code>UNUSED</code>
                <codeName>unused Target</codeName>
            </healthCheckStatus>
            <healthCheckResponse></healthCheckResponse>
        </target>
    </targetList>
</setTargetResponse>
```