Interfacing ZC with outside server

Interfacing ZC with outside server

Not sure if this is for the API forum or Creator so I'll start here :)

Would love advice on how to take my application to the "next level".  Currently we are using ZC to manage our video assets that are living on an outside server (Ubuntu server).  We have certain meta information including title, fileName , and other info on our ZC app.  The ZC interface is very slick and we love the potential and now would like to do more.

On the outside server we are doing two primary tasks: encoding and ftp transfer to other sites.  Currently in order to execute these "tasks" on the ubuntu server we ssh in and send bash scripts at the command line.

Could I use ZC to execute my bash scripts on the outside server? if so,  please let me know how I might accomplish.  thank you.