Guide to productively use SCOM 2012 ?

Hello everyone,
I am having a hard time trying to find what to do with the SCOM 2012 R2 UR4 installation I have done. I personally think that SCOM has a very steep learning curve. Seems to me one needs a PhD degree in rocket science to be able to fully use SCOM!!
Other monitoring tools like (spiceworks) are so very easy to setup and use.
I wish someone could tell me (in plain words) what is the sequence of things a SCOM admin should do to be productive.
Is there a guide out there?
Here are some of the questions I still have in my mind:
I have SCOM installed, now what?
I am supposed to install agents on all my 150+ servers or just a few?
How can I make sure SCOM watches over the servers? (warn me for simple things like disk space, CPU pegged etc)
Create dashboards on a wall mounted display?
Here is what I have been able to do until now...done the installation.... started monitoring a couple of web applications...you know... basic website is up/down notifications. But I wanna do more.
Please help me!
-Rajeev rajdude.com

SCOM is a sophisticated monitoring tool and has a easy setup and use characteristic.
1) Built up SCOM infrastructure: SCOM Managment Server, DB Server, SCOM console and SCOM reporting
http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2013/10/18/opsmgr-2012-r2-quickstart-deployment-guide.aspx
2) Deploy SCOM Agents to machines which you want to monitor: In your situation, i recommend that you should deploy SCOM agent to 150+ server by using discovery method
http://prajwaldesai.com/installing-scom-agent-on-windows-based-computers/
3) Deploy rquired MP:In your situation, it is recommend that Windows OS MP should be installed and the latest version should be downloaded from
http://www.microsoft.com/en-hk/download/details.aspx?id=9296
4) Create dashboards:http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/09/27/introducing-operations-manager-2012-dashboards.aspx
5) If you want to receive email alert in addition to SCOM alert, you should configure email notification and subscription:http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2012/04/28/opsmgr-2012-configure-notifications.aspx
6) Tunning threshold for your environment
   There are serveral built-in performance based monitors in Windows OS MP which need you attention. By deafult, Windows OS built-in monitors threshold is good but may not fit your company requirement which you should change it vale by using override
   a) Disk space monitor:
      - Windows XXX Logical Disk Space monitor:
        System Disk:
            Warning: free space below 10% and 500MB
            Error: free space below 5% and 300MB
        Non-system Disk:
            Warning: free space below 10% and 2000MB
            Error: free space below 5% and 1000MB
      - Windows XXX Logical Disk Free Space (%) Low:
        System Disk:
            Warning: free space below 10% for 1 hour
            Error: free space below 5% for 1 hour
        Non-system Disk:
            Warning: free space below 10% for 1 hour
            Error: free space below 5% for 1 hour
      - Winodws XXX Logical Disk Free Space (MB) Low:
        System Disk:
            Warning: free space below 500MB for 1 hour
            Error: free space below 300MB for 1 hour
        Non-system Disk:
            Warning: free space below 2000MB for 1 hour
            Error: free space below 1000MB for 1 hour
       Pay attention: By default, Windows XXX Logical Disk Free Space (%) Low and Winodws XXX Logical Disk Free Space (MB) Low is no enabled.
   b) Processor usage:
      - total CPU utilization Percentage: The default threshold is more than 95 % and CPU Queue length more than 15 for more than 45 minutes
   c) Memory usage:
      - Available megabytes of memory:Default threshold is below 100Mb for 45 minutes
Roger

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