Side effects on Testbench while grabbing the sequencer on interrupt

Hi all,
Need a help understanding grab sequencer. whenever an interrupt occurs we grab the sequencer to drive the interrupt sequence. I have the following question.Would appreciate help clarifying these questions.

  1. When the sequencer is grabbed what would be the impact on monitor and scoreboard. I do understand the for driver there is no impact since it will be driving the same interface with new sequence items generated by interrupt sequence ? Same is true of monitor and scoreboard as well?

  2. Is there any other way to handle interrupts instead of grabbing the sequencer ?