MK_Sep_Admin,
CSP is a very involved product on the IPS side as well as on the IDS side. Please always remember to disable prevention whenever applying a prevention policy without tuning. IDS is great to start with as its passive in nature (in most cases) so all that one can do is get flooded with events. As you read into the product documentation you may want to start with IDS, get a feel for the product, its event tuning, its logging functions, asset grouping, policy application, various reporting etc.. while running IPS with a null policy (tells IPS to do nothing). Then once confortable move to the Core or Strict (again more on that in the ips_ref.pdf document in the product /docs folder) with prevention disabled. Any events that come in as blue = would be blocked once prevention is turned on. that is where you start tuning via the available wizards. Again all this is in product documentation as well, so read read read.
I also highly recommend you receive training on the product if this is going on critical machines.