Net::OpenSSH does not work on Windows!

Your options are:

• Net::SSH2, which if you are using Strawberry Perl is already there, though I advice you to upgrade to the latest version.
• Net::SSH::Perl, quite difficult to install in Windows.

And then there is Net::SSH::Any, which provides an API very similar to that of Net::OpenSSH running on top of Net::SSH2.

A much improved version of Net::SSH::Any is almost ready. You can grab it from the GitHub repository. It is more reliable, friendly and feature rich than the version available from CPAN and can also run on top of most Windows binary SSH clients, including plink.