The SCP protocol is intended for use with SSH servers that do not support the SFTP protocol. SCP is applied by issuing remote shell commands over the SSH connection with server systems that understand standard shell commands such as the Unix command syntax.

Before you start to configure an SCP agent, refer to the following subsections:

• SCP Agents Server Keys(3.2)
• SCP Agents Attributes and Authentication(3.2)
• SCP Agents Server Identification(3.2)