Plink does not involve starting over... http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Plink (a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends)   For your case something similar to: $Connection = "plink.exe -ssh COMPUTERNAME -l USERNAME -pw PASSWORD" $log_dir = @ScriptDir & "\" & @MON & @MDAY & @YEAR & "\" Func _CableTest() $log = ">" & $log_dir & "\CableTestLog.log" $Command1 = "show int cable 5/0/14" runwait('cmd /c ' & $Connect