What is instance aware monitoring?
A. MOM 2005 management packs will automatically detect, and then start monitoring and managing, only those applications that are present on the box. “Instance aware” refers to MOM’s ability to identify various instances of an application installed on a server, and then start managing that application instance. For example, in addition to monitoring SQL server, MOM 2005 can detect and monitor application instances within SQL server, such as a SQL instance supporting the accounting application and a different instance supporting an ordering application.