Network Access Overview for SimplySNAP Cloud

What is SimplySNAP Cloud?

SimplySNAP Cloud is a cloud based application that unifies control and reporting across multiple Synapse gateways.

What is a Synapse gateway?

A Synapse gateway is a specialized, hardened Linux appliance used to wirelessly monitor and control Synapse lighting controllers and sensor nodes. Each Synapse gateway comes standard with a 10/100 Ethernet port for management of the local web UI (HTTPS) via the customer LAN.

What communication is involved on my network?

All communications with the internet has to be initiated from the gateway, therefore no external connections can be established inbound. This prevents unauthorized access to the gateway from the outside.

Below is a description of each outbound connection to the cloud servers used by a Synapse gateway:

SimplySNAP Remote Connections

SSH

TCP 22

tunnel.snap-lighting.com

Provides Synapse support team command-line access into customer gateways for remote commissioning and troubleshooting. This can be enabled / disabled at the customer’s discretion.

NTP

UDP 123

ntp.ubuntu.com

Used to synchronize local clock on gateways.

Config Sync

TCP 443

couchdb.simplysnapcloud.com

Used to synchronize configuration between Synapse gateways and the cloud.

VPN

UDP 1196

vpn.simplysnapcloud.com

OpenVPN is used to push configuration to the gateways from the cloud interface. Also allows administrator access to the UI of each SimplySNAP gateway from a single web domain.

MQTT

TCP 8883

a25n2uts2ytmw2-ats.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

A lightweight messaging protocol used to communicate power and sensor data for SimplySNAP connected devices to our web servers.