I wasn't sure whether to put this post here, or in Meditations. On one hand this is a continuation of the original question, but on the other hand this is an RFC on how to use Net::OpenSSH.

This is an excerpt from my module that encapsulates my use of Net::OpenSSH:

sub ops_do_ssh_shell {
   my ($cmd) = @_;

   my $ssh;
   my $key_path = $ENV{HOME} . '/.ssh/id_rsa';

   if ( ops_cmd_status($cmd) ) {
      $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($cmd->{host}, user => $cmd->{user}, key
+_path => $key_path);
      if ( $ssh->error ) {
         $cmd->{status} = 'failure';
         ($cmd->{ssh_retcode}, $cmd->{ssh_retmsg}) = (0 + $ssh->error,
+ '' . $ssh->error);
      }
   }

   if ( ops_cmd_status($cmd) ) {
      ($cmd->{output}, $cmd->{std_err}) = $ssh->capture2($cmd->{comman
+d});
      if ( $ssh->error ) {
         $cmd->{status} = 'failure';
         ($cmd->{child_retcode}, $cmd->{child_retmsg}) = (0 + $ssh->er
+ror, '' . $ssh->error);
      }
      chomp $cmd->{output};
      chomp $cmd->{std_err};
   }

   return $cmd;
}

sub ops_cmd_status {
   my ($cmd) = @_;
   defined $cmd->{status} or $cmd->{status} = 'success';
   $cmd->{status} eq 'success' ? 1 : 0;
}
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And this is how it would be invoked:

my $cmd = {
   user => 'oracle',
   host => 'randomdbserver.randomdomain.com',
   command => '/randompath/random_oracle_script'
   };

my $status = ops_do_ssh_shell($cmd);
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Any insight or corrections of oversight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
cbeckley