Nikolay,

True, for read-only access the worst failure scenario I can imagine is a loop of some kind causing a denial of service on your devices (high CPU).

I was speaking more generally to tools with write access, including RANCID and NeDi "Device Write" (www.nedi.ch).

Thanks for you input!

Tristan

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Nikolay Shopik <shopik@inblock.ru> wrote:

Well I doubt observium could be disaster for network as its only reading
stuff and not commit anything.

Only disaster could happend and this is when obs stop working and you
noticing this late billing for example.

On 17.06.2013 20:53, Tristan Rhodes wrote:
> Any powerful and useful tool (like Observium) has the potential to be the
> worst disaster for a network. Whether from a malicious attack or
> unintentional bug, these tools are something that keep me up at night (I
> use them because I think the benefits are worth the risk).

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