Inbound and Outbound interface confusion

[Former Member]

Hi

I thought I understood what Outbound and Inbound interface meant in XI, but then I read some other statements and now I am confuse. Can somebody please explain me.

I know that Sender sends message to Outbound interface and the Integration engine sends the message to Inbound inteface before it goes to Reciever.

I hope I understand it right.

But today I saw this statement, which got me confused :

"The sender agreement is used on the intergration server for inbound processing, the receiver agreement for outbound processing"

The above statement doesn't make sense to me because Outbound interface is for sender and Inbound interface is for receiver.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi ,

You're understanding is right about Inbound and outbound Interfaces,

The statement that you read is in reference to XI, which means that when a Sender sends data to XI, it goes into XI, hence for XI the data is Inbound and is validated using the Sender Agreement, and after processing the data that goes out is outbound from XI to the Receiver, likewise for the receiver agreement.

Regards,

Samson Rodrigues.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for everybody for clarifying my doubts. Now I can sleep easy

[henrique_pinto]

You must observe that the inbound and outbound notation is made in reference to the external systems and not to Integration Server. So, outbound interface refer to messages which come out of sender system, and inbound interfaces refer to messages which go into receiver system.

Once you do an Integration Scenario in repository and see the integration schemes from the point of view of application servers (and not of the integration server) you will understand the notation.

Regards,

Henrique.

[Former Member]

<<Once you do an Integration Scenario in repository and see the integration schemes from the point of view of application servers (and not of the integration server) you will understand the notation.

By application server, do you bean the sender and reciever application?

[henrique_pinto]

> By application server, do you bean the sender and

> reciever application?

Yeah.

In a common integration Landscape, you will have several application servers (which can be either sender or receivers, in several scenarios) and one integration server (your EAI tool, in the case of SAP, XI), which will integrate all the application server accordingly to your integration scenarios.

Regards,

Henrique.

[Former Member]

Hi Vijay,

It is very easy to understand.

If the data is going out of the system it is called outbound and if it is coming in to the system it is inbound with respect to that system.

Incase of Integration Engine, it gets data from outbound interface and sends data to inbound interface.

Please let me know if you still have doubt.

Thanks

Balaji

[Former Member]

hey

ur understandin is 100% correct

but >>The sender agreement is used on the intergration server for inbound processing, the receiver agreement for outbound processing"

is used with reference to Integration server's pipeline steps.inbound with reference to IS means that message is comin into it(which indirectly means its comin from sender.

and outbound with ref to IS means its goin out(which indirectly means goin to receiver)

flow is like dis

sender->Inbound processin in IS->Pipeline steps->Outbound processin in IS->Receiver

Note:Inbound and outbound processin in IS are infact parts of pipeline steps,but i took them out jst to show u the difference

thanx

ahmad

[Former Member]

Hi ,

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Samson Rodrigues.

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