SCP

The source SCP connector allows files and folders to be picked up from a file system and transformed into motation.

Configuration walkthrough

Specifics

The source SCP connector uses SSH and SCP commands to pick up the files in a file system. So you will need to create a user with appropriate permissions and a key to remotely access the file system as that user.

Permissions

Ensure that the user you provide config for has the correct permissions to access the files requested to sync.

Private Key

When creating the key and adding it to the endpoint configuration, the private key must be encoded base64 and cannot contain newlines. One way to generate this private key is base64 -w 0 private-key-motiv.pem > encoded-private-key-motiv.pem

Then pass the content of encoded-private-key-motiv.pem into the endpoint config field making sure you are not copying any end of lines from the file.

Endpoint Config

When saving an endpoint for a SCP repository via REST instead of the UI you must use the following key:value pairs in the payload.

• contentRepo:scp

• contentRepoVersion:latest

Unsupported

Zero byte files will not be picked up and will cause the transaction to never finish and thus never sync. This can be resolved by adding any data to a zero byte file.

SCP adapter does not support running as a remote adapter apart from Impulse.

Adapter Properties

Property	Purpose
url	The ip and port provided as ip:port to access the file system.
username	The username of the user to access the file system.
privateKey	The private key used to access the file system via SSH/SCP. Must be encoded base64, and can't contain newlines.
path	The path of the files to sync.

Job Options

The source SCP connector has no job options.

Motation Object Support

Object	Supported
Category	No
Definition	Yes
Domain	No
Folder	Yes
Language	No
Relationship	No
Tag	No