[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
Further description:
If the AgentAddress qualifier is a host-name-resolvable string, check the response time of the Windows executable file ping.exe <hostname>, where hostname is the host-name-resolvable string. Windows may be trying to resolve the host name across multiple network interface cards. In this case, Windows is performing a less-than-optimal search order.
Solution:
The marshalling interface between the WBEM client and the WBEM server may be timing out before the operation completes. Try increasing the marshalling timeout period.