24Jun/09
Connection to the target machine could not be made in a timely fashion – SSCM
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”
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.
July 22nd, 2009 - 01:56
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August 25th, 2010 - 15:58
I tried this but it didn’t work. I’m having the same error message when I try to restart the WMI service.
Any help?
Thanks in advance.
August 27th, 2010 - 20:30
Do you have admin rights in the server?
Is this clustered environment?