Jenkins: Connect to remote server and upload a file to remote server

[Bhaskar Bantupalli]

What is the correct way to securely upload some files to remote server using SSH/SCP using username and password.

What I tried so far is,

sshagent(credentials: ["creds_created_in_jenkins_id"]) {
sh "curl file  -o file_name; scp -r -o StrickHostKeyChecking=no filename:/destination/path/for/file; "
 }

I also tried after downloading the file,

sh "sshpass -p ${password} scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ${host.user}@${host.host}:/destination/path/for/file ."

scp command worked when run from windows machine, but it is getting timed out in jenkins

[Rob Spoor]

I've used that combination of sshagent and scp inside a sh command successfully.

You said that the command times out - does the Jenkins machine even have access to the target machine? Is there perhaps a firewall that blocks access?

[Roland Mueller]

For getting more information why the scp command failed you can add a -v (=verbose) flag to the scp command.

sh "sshpass -p ${password} scp -v -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ${host.user}@${host.host}:/destination/path/for/file ."