use Net::Telnet; my ($username, $password)=("benlaw", "usertesting"); my %serverid = qw{ testsvr1 10.159.32.21 }; $t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10, Dump_Log=> "err_dump.log", Output_log=> "err_out.log", Prompt => "/\$\s/" ); @date = $t->cmd("date"); print @date; $t->close;