Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.1 User Guide

Click the Registry tab to define the properties specific to the activity, including:

Registry hive—The name of the registry hive where the registry key and value are located

Registry key—Enter the registry key. You can either:

Enter the key manually or select a defined variable that represents the registry key to be used to 
read data. For example:

software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion

Click Browse to select the registry key (see 

Check for key existence only—Query the registry to determine whether the key exists

Read from value name—Read the value associated with the specified registry key

Options for 64-bits Windows targets—Select one of the following options to query the windows 
registry:

Query on 32-bit registry section

Query on 64-bit registry sections

Query on both 32-bit and 64-bit registry sections

Complete the appropriate information in the remaining tabs as necessary, then click Save to complete 
the activity definition.

Click the instance display-only tabs to view the results of the register query. See also, 

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Use the Query Windows Service activity to produce the current state of the service, the startup type of 
the service, and specifies the Windows service to be queried.

To ensure this Windows activity executes properly, verify that the Remote Registry service is enabled on 
your machine. 

In the Process Editor Toolbox, choose Microsoft Windows > Query Windows Service and drag and 
drop the activity onto the Workflow pane.

Click the General tab and enter the appropriate information.

Click the Service tab to specify the name of the Windows service to be queried.

Complete the appropriate information in the remaining tabs as necessary, then click Save to complete 
the activity definition.

Click the instance display-only tabs to view the current state of the service, the startup type of the 
service, and the Windows service queried. See also,