Dennis,
Thank you very much. I see what you are saying. I was thinking more along the lines of creating Thresholds in general and if there were any good guides to the creation of them because when I look at one or try to create one, it's not very clear how to actually make one. I do see some in there by default but I would like to create, for example, a threshold on increasing inferface errors for all my cisco switch ports.
I notice that in the devices under networks and switches....the defualt monitoring template is "/Devices" which is not specific to a network switch at all. Thus I feel my first step is to have a monitoring template specifically for Cisco Switches or am I thinking wrong?