Send alert mail if matlab/computer shuts down

As laid out in the title, what would a proper or easy way of doing this be? I have two computers, if A shuts down with main matlab, I would like B to send the alert mail (I can e.g. use matlab for this)...

Hope to hear from you, thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Rik]

You should be able to send emails with Matlab, see this post. You can put this in a piece of logic that checks if the other computer is up (assuming something like that is possible).

[Martin]

No problem in sending mails. But the way to check if my computer A is up, i dunno

[Rik]

That depends on how they are connected. Can they ping each other? You could use a file syncing system (e.g. dropbox) where you rename a file (which include an identifier for the pc) every fixed interval (e.g. 5 minutes). Then when 1 Matlab notices the other's file is 2 time stamps behind, you can assume that pc is down.