I have been learning Perl, so if this is too simple I am sorry. I needed a way to copy the file outputs of the nmon script I run on AIX machines. I wanted to move them to a single machine where there is plenty of disk for it. This is what I came up with.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
=head1 Author: TechFly
Name: nmoncopy.pl
Description: Copy all nmon files from the /tmp/nmonout folders on the 
+machiens listed in the machinelistfilename.  This will create a direc
+tory on the destination if needed, and will use SCP to copy the files
+.  Then it will use SSH and delete the files (less two days from runt
+ime) from the source.
Start date: 7-20-2010
Last updated Date: 7-20-2010
=cut

use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::SCP qw(scp);
use Net::SSH qw(ssh);

my $scp;
my $machinelist;
my $machinelistfilename = "./machinelist.txt";
my $server;

open($machinelist, "<", $machinelistfilename)||die $!;
print("\n");
while($server = <$machinelist>){
    chomp($server);
    if(-d "./$server"){
        copydata();
    }else{
        mkdir($server)||die $!;
        copydata();
    }
}

sub copydata{
        $scp = Net::SCP->new($server, "username");
        $scp->get("/tmp/nmonout/*", "/export/nmon/$server/") or die $s
+cp->{errstr};
        ssh($server, "find /tmp/nmonout/ -mtime +2 |xargs rm");
}
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