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Connection to the target machine could not be made in a timely fashion – SSCM

June 24th, 2009

Problem:

In our cluster environment I was testing SQL failover, when I failed over to passive node I can no longer launch SQL Server configuration manager (SSCM). When I tried to open SSCM, MMC has waited for 30 seconds and gave me the error below.

Connection to target machine could not be made in a timely fashion

sscm-error

Resolution:

Upon researching on this I found that WMI Service (Windows Management Instrumentation Service) is in hanged state. After restarting the service on passive node, it worked for me. Steps to restart the service is below.

  • Go to Run –> type services.msc and press enter
  • Right click on the service “Windows Management Instrumentation” and click on restart option in the menu
  • Now launch SQL Server configuration manager, it should work fine now.
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  1. Arun
    July 22nd, 2009 at 01:56 | #1

    The best information i have found exactly here. Keep going Thank you

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