Echoing previous post, you should "use strict;"

Do not use function prototypes. This turns out to be a bad idea although it looks familiar from other languages. There is reason for them, but this is not it.

Once you have done that, I could move the main loop part of the code to the front and put the subs at the end.
I recoded one sub for you. 

#----------------------------------------------------------------
# Execute a command on a Zhone device - recoded*****
#----------------------------------------------------------------

sub zhoneCommand {
  my ($command,$session) = @_; #<- look at this line for I/F

  my @output=$session->cmd(String => "$command", Errmode => 'return');
  chomp @output;
  
  return(@output);
}

#--------------
I would use fetchall_arrayref for a small, simple result set like this
+.
You get a reference to an array of server_host's.
Then just iterate over that array.
#---------------------


# loop through the servers table to pull data for each server
 my $sql = $dbc->prepare("SELECT server_host FROM servers");

 my $result = $sql->execute();
     or die "Unable to execute sql: $sql->errstr";

 my $host_array_ref = $result->fetchall_arrayref() or die "can't get a
+rray ref! $sql->errstr";

 foreach my $rowref (@$host_array_ref)
 {
     my ($host) = @$rowref;
     
     print "Calling telenet stuff  for $host\n"; #a little debugging o
+utput is fine
     # call your telenet routine on this host
  
 
 }

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in thread For each loop through mysql db to run Net::Telnet command by jay83

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