Learn more about XBee Industrial Gateway
This section walks you through the steps required to connect your XBee Industrial Gateway with XBee
hardware other than that in the XBee ZigBee Cloud Kit. The steps show you how to configure XBee
Industrial Gateway and XBee nodes, explore the use of data I/O in your network solution, and view
data from nodes.
Default startup and operation behaviors for XBee Industrial
Gateway
XBee Industrial Gateway has several default startup and operation behaviors that compare against
your own network's setup and operation. If these behaviors present any conflicts with your network's
configuration and operation, you may need to adjust the settings in either XBee Industrial Gateway or
you network.
Consider the following questions when deploying XBee Industrial Gateway in all types of networks:
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How many devices are you deploying, and for what purposes?
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Are you deploying one, several, or many devices over an Ethernet or cellular network?
Default behavior regarding NTP time server access
By default, XBee Industrial Gateway accesses an NTP time server to establish its date and time.
Access to an NTP server is required, and there is a default server.
The first time an XBee Industrial Gateway powers on and goes through its startup sequence, it needs
to access the NTP time server to set its time, and then attempt to connect to Remote Manager. This
first-time connection step could take up to five minutes or longer on cellular networks.
For XBee Industrial Gateway Ethernet models, you can specify up to
four
NTP servers to be used as
upstream servers in synchronizing time. The default settings for the four NTP server settings are as
follows:
NTP server 1
: 0.time.devicecloud.com
NTP server 2
: 0.time.devicecloud.com
NTP server 3
: 0.idigi.pool.ntp.org
NTP server 4
: 1.idigi.pool.ntp.org
XBee Industrial Gateway cellular models use the top NTP Server entry (
NTP Server 1
), and leave the
others blank. XBee Industrial Gateway checks all NTP servers that are configured for time-drift.
Having four NTP time servers configured for an XBee Industrial Gateway cellular device would result in
excessive and unnecessary cellular usage.
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