Unable to SSH to F5 Loadbalancer via perl script

I am trying to connect to F5 load balancer through perl module Net::SSH2. I am unable to authentication error, whereas with the same credentials I am able to ssh to the device through putty. I have shared the Code and the error below for reference. Could somebody please help me with this.

use Net::SSH2; 
$deviceipF5 = "x.x.x.x";
$username = "xx";
$encrPass = "xx";
 
 
my @deviceipF5List = split(',',$deviceipF5);
if(@deviceipF5List ne 0)
    {
        foreach my $deviceipF5(@deviceipF5List)
        {
            my @deviceipF5List1 = split (':', $deviceipF5); 
            my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new();
            $ssh2->debug(0);
            $ssh2->connect($deviceipF5List1[0]) or die $!;
            $ssh2->auth(username => $username, password => $encrPass) or die "Unable to login \n".$ssh2->die_with_error;
            print "Connected to '$deviceipF5List1[0]' as '$username' \n";
 
            my $channel = $ssh2->channel() or do { print "Unable to create channnel ssh channel to Device $deviceipF5List[0]";$ssh2->disconnect(); last;};
 
            $channel->blocking(0);
            $channel->shell() ;
            print "SSH Success \n";
            sleep(2);

I have even tried to use auth_password instead of auth but no Luck.

Below is the error I am getting: Bad file descriptor at line 16

I tried removing $1 from line number 16 but it lead to another error: Died at line 16

Also, in the development environment, I'm able to login to the device and fetch output via this script, but not in the client environment.