If I had one I would definitely try creating a separate VLAN for it to control, otherwise it's isolated from your files but still has access to your network and devices in it.
For the sake of interest you could try to expose periodically rotated keyed hashes of IPs and credentials instead of the raw values. It would still let people correlate events within a limited time window
It will be valuable to have two types of benchmarks: ones that evolve alongside the models and ones that never change. You probably can't get historical stability and resistance to flooding and training on at least some parts of it from the same test