Testing connectivity with your device data endpoint - AWS IoT Core
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Testing connectivity with your device data endpoint

This topic describes how to test a device's connection with your account's device data endpoint, the endpoint that your IoT devices use to connect to AWS IoT.

Perform these procedures on the device that you want to test or by using an SSH terminal session connected to the device you want to test.

Find your device data endpoint

To find your device data endpoint

  1. In the AWS IoT console, near the bottom of the navigation pane, chooseSettings.

  2. In the Settings page, in the Device data endpoint container, locate the Endpoint value and copy it. Your endpoint value is unique to your AWS account and is similar to this example: a3qEXAMPLEsffp-ats.iot.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.

  3. Save your device data endpoint to use in the following procedures.

Test the connection quickly

This procedure tests general connectivity with your device data endpoint, but it doesn't test the specific port that your devices will use. This test uses a common program and is usually sufficient to find out if your devices can connect to AWS IoT.

If you want to test connectivity with the specific port that your devices will use, skip this procedure and continue to Get the app to test the connection to your device data endpoint and port.

To test the device data endpoint quickly

  1. In a terminal or command line window on your device, replace the sample device data endpoint (a3qEXAMPLEsffp-ats.iot.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com) with the device data endpoint for your account, and then enter this command.

    Linux
    ping -c 5 a3qEXAMPLEsffp-ats.iot.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
    Windows
    ping -n 5 a3qEXAMPLEsffp-ats.iot.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

  2. If ping displays an output similar to the following, it connected to your device data endpoint successfully. While it didn't communicate with AWS IoT directly, it did find the server and it's likely that AWS IoT is available through this endpoint.

    PING a3qEXAMPLEsffp-ats.iot.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com (xx.xx.xxx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ec2-EXAMPLE-218.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (xx.xx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=1 ttl=231 time=127 ms
64 bytes from ec2-EXAMPLE-218.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (xx.xx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=2 ttl=231 time=127 ms
64 bytes from ec2-EXAMPLE-218.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (xx.xx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=3 ttl=231 time=127 ms
64 bytes from ec2-EXAMPLE-218.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (xx.xx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=4 ttl=231 time=127 ms
64 bytes from ec2-EXAMPLE-218.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (xx.xx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=5 ttl=231 time=127 ms

    If you are satisfied with this result, you can stop testing here.

    If you want to test the connectivity with the specific port used by AWS IoT, continue to Get the app to test the connection to your device data endpoint and port.

  3. If ping didn't return a successful output, check the endpoint value to make sure you have the correct endpoint and check the device's connection with the internet.

Get the app to test the connection to your device data endpoint and port

A more thorough connectivity test can be performed by using nmap. This procedure tests to see if nmap is installed on your device.

To check for nmap on the device

  1. In a terminal or command line window on the device you want to test, enter this command to see if nmap is installed.

    nmap --version

  2. If you see an output similar to the following, nmap is installed and you can continue to Test the connection to your device data endpoint and port.

    Nmap version 6.40 ( http://nmap.org )
Platform: x86_64-koji-linux-gnu
Compiled with: nmap-liblua-5.2.2 openssl-1.0.2k libpcre-8.32 libpcap-1.5.3 nmap-libdnet-1.12 ipv6
Compiled without:
Available nsock engines: epoll poll select

  3. If you don't see a response similar to the one shown in the preceding step, you must install nmap on the device. Choose the procedure for your device's operating system.

Linux

This procedure requires that you have permission to install software on the computer.

To install nmap on your Linux computer

  1. In a terminal or command line window on your device, enter the command that corresponds to the version of Linux it's running.

    1. Debian or Ubuntu:

      sudo apt install nmap

    2. CentOS or RHEL:

      sudo yum install nmap

  2. Test the installation with this command:

    nmap --version

  3. If you see an output similar to the following, nmap is installed and you can continue to Test the connection to your device data endpoint and port.

    Nmap version 6.40 ( http://nmap.org )
Platform: x86_64-koji-linux-gnu
Compiled with: nmap-liblua-5.2.2 openssl-1.0.2k libpcre-8.32 libpcap-1.5.3 nmap-libdnet-1.12 ipv6
Compiled without:
Available nsock engines: epoll poll select
macOS

This procedure requires that you have permission to install software on the computer.

To install nmap on your macOS computer

  1. In a browser, open https://nmap.org/download#macosx and download the latest stable installer.

    When prompted, select Open with DiskImageInstaller.

  2. In the installation window, move the package to the Applications folder.

  3. In the Finder, locate the nmap-xxxx-mpkg package in the Applications folder. Ctrl-click the on package and select Open to open the package.

  4. Review the security dialog box. If you are ready to install nmap, choose Open to install nmap.

  5. In Terminal, test the installation with this command.

    nmap --version

  6. If you see an output similar to the following, nmap is installed and you can continue to Test the connection to your device data endpoint and port.

    Nmap version 7.92 ( https://nmap.org )
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0
Compiled with: nmap-liblua-5.3.5 openssl-1.1.1k nmap-libssh2-1.9.0 libz-1.2.11 nmap-libpcre-7.6 nmap-libpcap-1.9.1 nmap-libdnet-1.12 ipv6 Compiled without:
Available nsock engines: kqueue poll select
Windows

This procedure requires that you have permission to install software on the computer.

To install nmap on your Windows computer

  1. In a browser, open https://nmap.org/download#windows and download the latest stable release of the setup program.

    If prompted, choose Save file. After the file is downloaded, open it from the downloads folder.

  2. After the setup file finishes downloading, open downloaded nmap-xxxx-setup.exe to install the app.

  3. Accept the default settings as the program installs.

    You don't need the Npcap app for this test. You can deselect that option if you don't want to install it.

  4. In Command, test the installation with this command.

    nmap --version

  5. If you see an output similar to the following, nmap is installed and you can continue to Test the connection to your device data endpoint and port.

    Nmap version 7.92 ( https://nmap.org )
Platform: i686-pc-windows-windows
Compiled with: nmap-liblua-5.3.5 openssl-1.1.1k nmap-libssh2-1.9.0 nmap-libz-1.2.11 nmap-libpcre-7.6 Npcap-1.50 nmap-libdnet-1.12 ipv6
Compiled without:
Available nsock engines: iocp poll select

Test the connection to your device data endpoint and port

To test your device data endpoint and port

  1. In a terminal or command line window on your device, replace the sample device data endpoint (a3qEXAMPLEsffp-ats.iot.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com) with the device data endpoint for your account, and then enter this command.

    nmap -p 8443 a3qEXAMPLEsffp-ats.iot.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

  2. If nmap displays an output similar to the following, nmap was able to connect successfully to your device data endpoint at the selected port.

    Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-02-18 16:23 Pacific Standard Time
Nmap scan report for a3qEXAMPLEsffp-ats.iot.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com (xx.xxx.147.160)
Host is up (0.036s latency).
Other addresses for a3qEXAMPLEsffp-ats.iot.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com (not scanned): xx.xxx.134.144 xx.xxx.55.139 xx.xxx.110.235 xx.xxx.174.233 xx.xxx.74.65 xx.xxx.122.179 xx.xxx.127.126
rDNS record for xx.xxx.147.160: ec2-EXAMPLE-160.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

PORT     STATE SERVICE
8443/tcp open  https-alt
MAC Address: 00:11:22:33:44:55 (Cimsys)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.91 seconds

  3. If nmap didn't return a successful output, check the endpoint value to make sure you have the correct endpoint and check your device's connection with the internet.

You can test other ports on your device data endpoint, such as port 443, the primary HTTPS port, by replacing the port used in step 1, 8443, with the port that you want to test.