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Hello all,

What is the preferred method of adding services to service groups.

We are trying to determine the smartest/most efficent method of managing about 15,000 trunk services and are debating if we should add the servicegroup within each service definition, or leave the service's servicegroups blank and create servicegroups to add those services to?

Currently we are configuring these new services using the Unconfigured Objects Wizard and applying a template that assigns the service to an existing servicegroup. We're doing an audit on those services and would like to know the best practice going forward.

Add them from within the individual service definitions, or add them in the servicegroups?

Are there benchmark tests that show if there's increased database/application CPU usage if they're configured one way versus another?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
JL

The performance should be the same either way.

Based on how you are adding them, I would recommend doing it the same way, this way if you need to remove any in the future, you can just remove the service, and don't need to worry about removing it from the service group definition first.