Update: ++TomDLux , beat me to the punch! Signing up for the monastery is a great idea.
HTML::Template will save your bacon. Specifically its looping feature. Design the layout of a table/cell for one switch status. Insert place holders into the relevant fields, and a template loop around the whole deal. 

<html>
<body>
<table border=3>
<TMPL_LOOP switches>
<tr>
 <td>
  <TMPL_VAR hostname>
 </td>
 <td>
  <TMPL_VAR status>
 </td>
</tr>
</TMPL_LOOP>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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Then you can feed your data into that with HTML::Template

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use HTML::Template;

my $template = HTML::Template->new( filename=>'./switch-status.tmpl' )
+;
my @hosts = ( qw/ switch cisco1 cisco2 ninety nine cisco5 / );
my $info = [];

foreach my $host ( @hosts ) 
{
 my $data = {
        hostname=> $host,
        status  => Host2Status($host) ,
        };
 push @$info , $data;
}

$template->param(switches=>$info);

print $template->output;

sub Host2Status {
 my $host = shift;
 my $rand_status = int (rand 2)-1;
 my $status = ($rand_status) ? "Cool" : "Froody";
 return $status;
}

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This code works for me , no guarantees though. The cpan documentation for HTML::Template is good. If you are familiar with creating semi-complex datastructures in perl like an array of hashes, you will have this done in _NO_ time.


I can't believe it's not psellchecked

In reply to Re: Generating HTML from SNMP data by submersible_toaster
in thread Generating HTML from SNMP data by Anonymous Monk

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