- What if anything can SAM tell me about SQL Server 2000? - Anything and everything. There are some out of the box monitors but you can download additional ones via the Content Exchange.
- Can SAM be used to alert based on Windows Event log events? - You can setup syslog and trigger alerts based on keywords.
- Is there an easy way to configure e-mail alerting of all alerts to a single recipient? - The basic and advanced alert manager apps will allow you to do this.
- Is there a rule of thumb for the number of license points needed per simple server? - I would say 10-15 would be a good number of monitored apps for some basic services/apps but there are some that require 30+.