Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.1 User Guide

Windows performance counters

The Process Orchestrator server publishes a number of Windows performance counters concerning 
its operations. For a list of Windows performance counters, see 

Be sure to monitor the system event logs and Windows performance counters from all 
Process Orchestrator servers in an environment. Monitoring one server is not sufficient to 
monitor the health of all servers.

This section discusses how to maintain the availability of the servers in the Process Orchestrator 
environment during routine maintenance:

To maintain availability of the overall high availability environment during routine outages, such as 
Microsoft security patches and minor Process Orchestrator upgrades that do not affect the database 
schema:

Shut down one Process Orchestrator service (while keeping the others running). Wait for the Process 
Orchestrator service to completely stop via a friendly shutdown.

Install the Microsoft patches or Process Orchestrator patches on that server.

Reboot as necessary, then restart the Process Orchestrator service.

Repeat steps 1-3 on all Process Orchestrator servers, one at a time, to maintain availability of the overall 
high availability environment.

For more information about shutting down and restarting Process Orchestrator, see the Cisco Process 
Orchestrator Installation Guide.

To add more capacity to your Process Orchestrator environment, just add another Process Orchestrator 
server. Before you can do that, you must:

Be able to connect to an existing Process Orchestrator server

Have permission to add a new server

Acquire the credentials for connecting to the Process Orchestrator process database

For information about how to add a new server, see the Cisco Process Orchestrator Installation Guide.