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register-thing¶

Description¶

Provisions a thing in the device registry. RegisterThing calls other IoT control plane APIs. These calls might exceed your account level IoT Throttling Limits and cause throttle errors. Please contact Amazon Web Services Customer Support to raise your throttling limits if necessary.

Requires permission to access the RegisterThing action.

Synopsis¶

  register-thing
--template-body <value>
[--parameters <value>]
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]

Options¶

--template-body (string)

The provisioning template. See Provisioning Devices That Have Device Certificates for more information.

--parameters (map)

The parameters for provisioning a thing. See Provisioning Templates for more information.

key -> (string)

value -> (string)

Shorthand Syntax:

KeyName1=string,KeyName2=string

JSON Syntax:

{"string": "string"
  ...}

--cli-input-json (string) Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

Global Options¶

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command's default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

json
text
table

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

on
off
auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal's quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To register a thing

The following register-thing example registers a thing using a provisioning template.

aws iot register-thing \
    --template-body '{"Parameters":{"ThingName":{"Type":"String"},"AWS::IoT::Certificate::Id":{"Type":"String"}},"Resources": {"certificate":{"Properties":{"CertificateId":{"Ref":"AWS::IoT::Certificate::Id"},"Status":"Active"},"Type":"AWS::IoT::Certificate"},"policy":{"Properties":{"PolicyName":"MyIotPolicy"},"Type":"AWS::IoT::Policy"},"thing":{"OverrideSettings":{"AttributePayload":"MERGE","ThingGroups":"DO_NOTHING","ThingTypeName":"REPLACE"},"Properties":{"AttributePayload":{},"ThingGroups":[],"ThingName":{"Ref":"ThingName"},"ThingTypeName":"VirtualThings"},"Type":"AWS::IoT::Thing"}}}' \
    --parameters '{"ThingName":"Register-thing-trial-1","AWS::IoT::Certificate::Id":"799a9ea048a1e6aea42b55EXAMPLEf8697b4bafcd77a318a3068e30404b9233c"}'

Output:

{
    "certificatePem": "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\nMIIDWTCCAkGgAwIBAgIUYLk81I35cIppobpw
HiOJ2jNjboIwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEL\nBQAwTTFLMEkGA1UECwxCQW1hem9uIFdlYiBTZXJ2aWNlcyBPPUFtYXpvbi
5jb20g\nSW5jLiBMPVNlYXR0bGUgU1Q9V2FzaGluZ3RvbiBDPVVTMB4XDTIwMDcyMzE2NDUw\nOVoXDTQ5MTIzMT
IzNTk1OVowHjEcMBoGA1UEAwwTQVdTIElvVCBDZXJ0aWZpY2F0\nZTCCASIwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADggEPADCC
AQoCggEBAO71uADhdBajqTmgrMV5\nmCFfBZQRMo1MdtVoZr2X+M4MzL+RARrtUzH9a2SMAckeX8KeblIOTKzORI
RDXnyE\n6lVOwjgAsd0ku22rFxex4eG2ikha7pYYkvuToqA7L3TxItRvfKrxRI4ZfJoFPip4\nKqiuBJVNOGKTcQ
Hd1RNOrddwwu6kFJLeKDmEXAMPLEdUF0N+qfR9yKnZQkm+g6Q2\nGXu7u0W3hn6nlRN8qVoka0uW12p53xM7oHVz
Gf+cxKBxlbOhGkp6yCfTSkUBm3Sp\n9zLw35kiHXVm4EVpwgNlnk6XcIGIkw8a/iy4pzmvuGAANY1/uU/zgCjymw
ZT5S30\nBV0CAwEAAaNgMF4wHwYDVR0jBBgwFoAUGx0tCcU3q2n1WXAuUCv6hugXjKswHQYD\nVR0OBBYEFOVtvZ
9Aj2RYFnkX7Iu01XTRUdxgMAwGA1UdEwEB/wQCMAAwDgYDVR0P\nAQH/BAQDAgeAMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAA4IB
AQCXCQcpOtubS5ftOsDMTcpP/jNX\nDHyArxmjpSc2aCdmm7WX59lTKWyAdxGAvqaDVWqTo0oXI7tZ8w7aINlGi5
pXnifx\n3SBebMUoBbTktrC97yUaeL025mCFv8emDnTR/fE7PTsBKjW0g/rrfpwBxZLXDFwN\nnqkQjy3EDfifj2
6j0xYIqqWMPogyn4srOCKynS5wMJuQZlHQOnabVwnwK4Y0Mflp\np9+4susFUR9aT3BT1AcIwqSpzhlKhh4Iz7ND
kRn4amsUT210jg/zOO1Ow+BTHcVQ\nJly8XDu0CWSu04q6SnaBzHmlySIajxuRTP/AdfRouP1OXe+qlbPOBcvVvF
8o\n-----END CERTIFICATE-----\n",
    "resourceArns": {
        "certificate": "arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:571032923833:cert/799a9ea048a1e6aea42b55EXAMPLEf8697b4bafcd77a318a3068e30404b9233c",
        "thing": "arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:571032923833:thing/Register-thing-trial-1"
    }
}

For more information, see Provisioning by trusted user in the AWS IoT Core Developers Guide.

Output¶

certificatePem -> (string)

The certificate data, in PEM format.

resourceArns -> (map)

ARNs for the generated resources.

key -> (string)

value -> (string)

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