Okay, so I was able to get it to actually upload a file...sort of. I made these changes:

$sftp->setcwd("/root/svcftp/sftp") or die "=[\n" . $sftp->error;
$sftp->put("/usr/local/nagios/Misc/sftptest", "/root/svcftp/sftp/sftpt
+est") or die "Can't put\n" . $sftp->error;
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What I mean by "sort of" is that I see the file appear in the directory on my FTP server, but I still get an error on the put method. The error is :

Couldn't setstat remote file: SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_PERMISSIONS at line 33
+.
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