Telnet with Run Program Activity

Hello Experts,
I have a quick question with respect to the Run Program Activity. Is it possible to have a telnet session with the run program activity without loosing the connection ?
So my first activity will be the telnet connection. Once the connection is established I will then execute a command to get the output.
However, when I execute the runbook it establishes the connection and closes it immediately. As a result the next command does not get executed. When I throw the output to a text file, it says invalid command which means that the telnet session gets closed.
Is there any other way to do this ?
Regards,
Abdul Karim. (http://sites.google.com/site/scomblogs Twitter:@Abdul_SCOM)

Hello,
Yes I tried the same with SSH and the activity still fails.
I also tried pwershell script, however the .Net Activity fails saying telnet is unrecognized command.
So how are we to achieve telnet commands using SSH or Run Program Activity.
Is it supported in the first place ? If I only have a run program activity to telnet and I try to capture the output in a text file, I see that the telnet session itself fails and the exit code is -1.
If I use something like dir or ipconfig/flushdns etc they all return exit code of 0.
Moreover, for telnet sessions since it will be based on a unique process ID, how can we configure the next set of command using the same ID ?
Regards,
Abdul Karim. (http://sites.google.com/site/scomblogs Twitter:@Abdul_SCOM)

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