If I was a software developer, I might just say: "Moving the file to your workstation is outside the original scope of the project (as defined in your original post). This will have an extra cost."
In plain English (as opposed to Developerese), that would be "Why didn't you say so in the first place???"
Formatting the file into HTML is not going to make any difference in the task of moving the file from the HPUX system(s) to your workstation: most file transfer methods don't care what's inside the file, they just move it. So is the HTML format a real requirement, or something you thought might help?
Actually, moving the file to your workstation might be the most complicated part of the script.
The first big question is, what file transfer methods are available in your environment? What file transfer protocols are available both on the HPUX machines and on your workstation? Or can you install something into your workstation?
When the transfer method is selected, the next big question is, can the file be "pushed" from the HPUX machine(s) to your workstation, or must you do something (e.g. run another script on the workstation) to "pull" the files from the HPUX machine(s)?
For example, if your workstation had a SSH server software running in it, and all your HPUX servers had the free HP Secure Shell product installed it would be easy to modify James's script to write its output to a file, then push the file to your workstation using the scp command.
If you can only set up a writeable Windows network share on your workstation, and all the HPUX machines have a CIFS client installed, you could perhaps use that in the script to push the output file to the network share of your workstation.
If your site has a firewall between your workstation and the HPUX machines and it's configured to stop all connections from HPUX to workstation (but not vice versa), then you need to "pull" the files to you by doing something at your workstation. If the HPUX systems have the above-mentioned HP Secure Shell product installed, you could install PuTTY (a free SSH client that includes some scriptable command-line tools), and use its "plink" command to run the data collection script on a HPUX machine, then use "pscp" command to pull the output file from the HPUX machine to you.
You could even write a script (a .bat or .cmd in a Windows environment) to do this automatically for all your systems at once.
If SSH is not available, you might do something similar with telnet/rlogin and FTP, although that would not be secure at all.
...But listing all these possible methods without knowing anything about your environment is really boring and difficult and won't help you much. So please, answer these two questions:
1.) What file transfer protocols are available between your workstation and the HPUX machines?
2.) Is it possible to "push" data to your workstation from the HPUX side?
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