Shane -
What exactly are you looking for in the form of help? Someone to essentially do the deploy or someone that can answer your questions and guide you (i.e. more of a training)?
As far as thresholds/templates go it can be confusing at first but once you understand it you'll see it's actually rather easy and extremely powerful.
For example there is a 'Device' template applied to most device classes. What is in that template depends on what class it is in (The SNMP Oid to monitor CPU on Linux is different than Windows). If you modify the Device template that is under /Server/Linux then you affect (by default) all devices under /Server/Linux. So you can create a threshold in one place and affect a lot of different devices. That can be kind of a pain as you might want your mail server to have a lower threshold than your web server for example as you would need to override the template on the device. There are ways around that using custom properties and referencing those in your template.
Sometimes it's easier to ask a specific type of question like "I need to create a threshold for x on my Linux servers" and then we can usually give a more precise answer which generally can be applied to other devices/thresholds.
--Dennis