Is there an equivalent of "ping" for RabbitMQ? How can I diagnose whether an exchange or queue is broadcasting?

I'm using postwait/node-amqp (link) to connect to a variety of RabbitMQ exchanges and queues in our organization.

As my project has moved from dev to production I've encountered several issues with queues not being setup correctly or passwords being incorrect etc. In the latter case, it's obvious, I'll get a ECONNREFUSED error. In the first case though, I don't get any errors, just a timeout on the connect.

Given a URI like amqp://USER:PASS@messaging.abc.xyz.com how can I determine if a queue called "FooWorkItems.Work' is accepting connections for listening? What's the bare minimum code for this, the equivalent of checking if an API is listening or a server is up and listening on the ping port?

Code:

if (this.amqpLib == null) {
    this.amqpLib = require('amqp');
  }
this.connection = this.amqpLib.createConnection({
    url: this.endpoint
  });

  this.connection.on('ready', (function(_this) {
    return function() {
      var evt, _fn, _fn1, _i, _j, _len, _len1, _ref, _ref1;
      _this.logger.info("" + _this.stepInfo + " connected to " + _this.endpoint + "; connecting to " + queueName + "  now.");
      if (_this.fullLogging) {
        _ref = ['connect', 'heartbeat', 'data'];
        _fn = function(evt) {
          return _this.connection.on(evt, function() {
            _this.logger.trace("" + _this.stepInfo + " AMQP event: " + evt);
            if (arguments != null) {
              return _this.logger.trace({
                args: arguments
              });
            }
          });
        };
        for (_i = 0, _len = _ref.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
          evt = _ref[_i];
          _fn(evt);
        }
        _ref1 = ['error', 'close', 'blocked', 'unblocked'];
        _fn1 = function(evt) {
          return _this.connection.on(evt, function() {
            if (evt !== 'close') {
              return _this.logger.error("" + _this.stepInfo + " AMQP event: " + evt);
            } else {
              return _this.logger.warn("" + _this.stepInfo + " AMQP event: " + evt);
            }
          });
        };
        for (_j = 0, _len1 = _ref1.length; _j < _len1; _j++) {
          evt = _ref1[_j];
          _fn1(evt);
        }
      }
      return _this.connection.queue(_this.queueName, {
        passive: true
      }, function(q) {
        logger.debug("" + stepInfo + " connected to queue " + queueName + ". Init complete.");
        return q.subscribe(function(message, headers, deliveryInfo, messageObject) {
          logger.trace("" + stepInfo + " recvd message");
          return logger.trace({
            headers: headers
          });
        });
      });
    };