help add a sleep or waitfor into NET:Telnet:Cisco

dgalati000 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, newbie here. I am using NET:Telnet:Cisco to telnet to and log into Cisco CAT-OS and Cisco IOS switches. I receive an error and bomb out ONLY when connecting to a CAT-OS switch and then attempt to progress past the username and password field. The issues is: the CAT-OS has a delay when producing/displaying the 'username' and 'password' prompts (Cisco IOS serves up these two fields immediately and the problem does not appear on IOS switches). I want to modify the Cisco.pm to insert a wait or pause or sleep so that it waits a few secs for the username prompt to appear before proceeding, same wait for the password prompt. I have ID'd several areas in the .pm that I believe are the approp. routine/sub-routine, but don't know how to add the waitfor or sleep. Can someone offer a fix? Don't know how to add the .pm text here?? too newbie, but need help!! thx a bunch in advance.

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Re: help add a sleep or waitfor into NET:Telnet:Cisco by Illuminatus (Curate) on Feb 19, 2009 at 22:18 UTC
You have tried setting the 'timeout' value associated with the login, right? `$session->login (name=>"admin", password=>"default", timeout=>30);` [download] Maybe you could provide a code snippet of what is not working, if this is not your problem?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: help add a sleep or waitfor into NET:Telnet:Cisco by dgalati000 (Initiate) on Feb 20, 2009 at 14:58 UTC
morning, pasting in the code from the code I'm working off of. Error msg is at line 42 (pattern match) >> $session->login(Name => $username, Password => $userpassword); YOUR suggestion relates to line 41 and that reads Timeout uses the scalar of $secs....which I've tried to manipulate. thank you for the comeback. $secs = 30; my $session = Net::Telnet::Cisco->new(Host => $ip_address, Timeout => $secs);	[reply]