This requires [http://paramiko.org Paramiko], is currently configured inside of my home directory on astro2015.cape.saao.ac.za at /home/briehan/check_data.py and works by checking for the existence of fits files inside of the directories for this month and last month.
The crontab for my user:
MAILTO=briehan@saao.ac.za,amanda@saao.ac.za,carel@saao.ac.za
0 9 * * * /home/briehan/venv/bin/python /home/briehan/checkdata.py