I've been fighting with Net::SSH2 trying to get it to do simple stuff -- in particular all I needed was for it to be ablet execute commands on the server. I've gotten it all working {the biggest hangup was that, apparently, password auth doesn't work in Net::SSH2 and switching to public_key make things magically work}. Here's the skeleton of a little program that'll execute shell commands:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# run shell commands remotely over an SSH connection

use strict;
use warnings ;
use Net::SSH2 ;
use constant HOST => "YOURHOST" ;
use constant USER => "YOURLOGIN" ;
use constant HOSTKEY => "Path to your known_hosts keys file" ;

##  To enable the public key login, append your 'pub' key file to the
##  authorized_keys file in ~/.ssh on the server

use constant PUBLICKEY => "Path to your public key" ;
use constant PRIVATEKEY => "path to your private key" ;

# Set up the SSH connection

my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new() ;
$ssh2->connect(HOST) or $ssh2->die_with_error ;
$ssh2->check_hostkey(tofu => HOSTKEY) 
    or $ssh2->die_with_error ;
$ssh2->auth_publickey(USER, PUBLICKEY, PRIVATEKEY)
    or $ssh2->die_with_error ;
$ssh2->auth_ok() ;

# Logged in -- now you can execute commands

print docmd("cd bin; ls") ;

$ssh2->disconnect() ;
exit ;

#  do the command and return the output
## NB: you can only do one command on a channel so we get a channel
##   do the command, collect the output and close the channel
##   The command must be a fully "punctuated and escaped" shell comman
+d.
sub docmd
{   my $chan = $ssh2->channel() or $ssh2->die_with_error ;
    $chan->exec("($_[0]) 2>&1") ;
    my $out = "";
    while (!$chan->eof)
    {   my $buffer = "";
        if (not defined ($chan->read($buffer, 100)))
        {   $ssh2->die_with_error() ; }
        $out .= $buffer ;
    }
    return $out ;
}
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