Great code for an intern ! (++)

If you want to put some effort into making it more professional looking, I'd suggest data-driven parameter processing. This would minimize repeated code, standardize the look, make it extensible, and many other "good" buzzwords.

To do that, you would need to come up with a structure like: 

my %params=(
  host => (TYPE=>"s", REQUIRED=>1, VALUE=>undef,
           VALIDATE=>sub { # Tis could be a subref to an external, if 
+it gets too big
                  my $host=shift;
                  print "\nChecking if $host is alive.. \n";
                 $ping = Net::Ping->new();
                 if ($ping->ping($host)){
                    print "$host is alive\n\n";
                 }else {
                    print "$host is unreachable\n\n";
                    exit;
                 }    
                 $ping->close();
                 },
          ), # End of host
 
  engine =>  (TYPE=>"s", REQUIRED=>1, VALUE=>undef,),
  user   =>   (TYPE=>"s", REQUIRED=>1, VALUE=>undef),
  password =>  (TYPE=>"s", REQUIRED=>1, VALUE=>undef),

);

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Then you can process it like this: 
GetOptions(
   map { "$_=$params{$_}{TYPE}" => \$params{$_}{VALUE}  } keys %params
  );

for (keys %params){
  showUsage("Missing required parameter $_") if $params{$_}{REQUIRED} 
+&& ! $params{$_}{VALUE};
  $params{$_}{VALIDATE}->($params{$_}{VALUE})  if   $params{$_}{VALIDA
+TE};
}

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        -- Dr. Cox, Scrubs

In reply to Re: Review of my script by NetWallah
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