About communication using the SCP protocol

[Ohki_Yamamoto]

Is it possible to communicate with ServiceNow using the SCP protocol?

We have confirmed that it is possible to connect using SFTP at the following
https://docs.servicenow.com/ja-JP/bundle/paris-servicenow-platform/page/administer/flow-designer/reference/sftp-step.html

[Maik Skoddow]

Hi,

no that is not possible. You can communicate with ServiceNow via standard interface protocols like SOAP or REST. 

Maik 

[Ohki_Yamamoto]

Maik Skoddow, thanks for your response.

I understand that the standard ServiceNow interface protocols does not allow communication via SCP.

As an alternative, we understand that it is possible, for example, to send a file from ServcieNow to an external system via a MID server, using SCP communication from the MID server.

[Ohki_Yamamoto]

Is it possible to connect via SSH protocol and use SCP commands to transfer files, etc.?

[Maik Skoddow · Accepted solution]

Hi

ServiceNow is as standard web application running in an application container behind a web server and interacts with consumers over the HTTP protocol. 

But SCP commands are executed on the OS level and therefore cannot be triggered by a web application. 

But the MID server acts on the OS level and can be triggered by ServiceNow to perform SCP commands. There are different approaches for that. For example sending PowerShell commands to the MID server or using the SSH step available via Integration Hub (see https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/tokyo-servicenow-platform/page/administer/flow-designer/reference...)

Maik