Things didn’t go too smoothly yesterday when I was trying to reconfigure our SQL 2005 cluster and it’s database locations. At one point I couldn’t even get SQL Configuration Manager to start up. At various times I received both of the following errors.
The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details.
Connection to target machine could not be made in a timely fasion.
Luckily, the fix was pretty easy. Just launch services.msc and restart the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service, SQL Configuration Manager should start up for you.
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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.