What is inbound and outbound?

[rakesh52]

What is inbound and outbound?

[Alikutty A]

Hi,

If you are a SN developer, All web services which are setup in your Service Now instances are called as Inbound for you and you become a Producer

And

All web services which are setup in the external or third systems are called as Outbound and you would access this to get connected with them and then you are termed as a Consumer

Thanks!

[Alberto Consonn]

Hi rakesh,

the best way to understand the difference would be this video:

https://youtu.be/EhxgEECd7mQ

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35891775/difference-between-inbound-and-outbound-web-service

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Thank you

Cheers
Alberto

[siva_]

In My opinion  Inbound means where we are providing the service for any third Party (be it another instance or third party tool ) to consume

Outbound is where we are consuming the service and third party is acting as the provider 

This is the best way i remembered the difference and hope this helps 

Mark this response as correct if that really helps

Thanks,

Siva

[Santosh_Ksagar · Accepted solution]

Inbound - Receiving Request

Outbound - Sending Response 

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Regards

Santosh Kshirsagar