Evan Prodromou's questions

Like many people, I use a Zabbix system to monitor my servers. If there's a problem with one of my servers, Zabbix will send a message to the email address of my choosing. (Many - most? - monitoring systems work this way.)

When an alert happens, I'd like to have my phone wake me up with a loud sound. But I don't want it to make a loud sound at every email or SMS it receives.

Are other mechanisms available for reliably delivering alerts to mobile devices, which could be configured with a loud, annoying alert tone?

I work with small teams (<10) of developers and admins with the following characteristics:

• Most members of the team have >1 personal computer, most of which are portable
• Team members have access to 10-50 servers, usually with sudo

I think this is pretty typical for most startups and small- to mid-size corporate IT groups.

What are the best practices for managing SSH keys in a team like this?

Should you share a single key for the whole team?

Should each person have their own key on a shared account ("ubuntu" on every server)?

Separate accounts?

Should each team member keep a separate key for each of their laptop or desktop computers?