Greetings, I hope this isn't too stupid of a newbie question.

I'm looking to write a VB script/form on my box that goes out and accesses a perl script on a remote server.

The perl script is designed to monitor a few different servers for connectivity, etc... I want the script to run once a minute, but since I am putting it on a server I don't control, I'm writing a VB program on my server to go out and run the perl script once a minute...

I need to know if using the Microsoft Winsock Control is the way to go. And if so, how would one run a perl script remotely??

Hope this makes sense..

Regards,
Shane