Elk does monitor the status of individual insteon devices regardless of how they came to be at that status. It will not monitor the status of scenes, it only knows if it turned a scene on or off and leaves it at that status regardless of what happens outside of the elk. Scenes can only be put into the elk via an isy as far as I know so if you don't have an isy then scene status is of no concern. ISY allows for download of the entire lighting setup and import into the elk which is nice. If done this way, then the elk is all set up to monitor the status as the isy links all devices to the plm. If you do it manually, you have to link the plm to track the status of each device you want the elk. Directions for doing this are in the elk manual.