Wisdom Holders,
I have a script, GET.pl, among others, that connects to machines outside of my firewall to retrieve data. Before I initiate that connection I call an external script, pingtest.pl, that determines which of my firewalls can connect to that external server. When a connection failure occures the pingtest.pl script issues an e-mail alert to my OPS team.

My problem is: I have no way of telling which script on which server has the failing pingtest.pl.

I am using my @values = do '/usr/local/bin/pingtest.pl'; to call the script. It returns info to the @values array but I cannot figure out how to pass the name of the calling script to the pingtest.pl script. my @values = do '/usr/local/bin/pingtest.pl myhostname'; does not work.

Please reveal the pearl of PERL of Wisdom that I do not possess.

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