Agent Showing Red or Offline in Core UI with Error, "The system cannot locate WMI provider" (4038555)

Agent Showing Red or Offline in Core UI with Error, "The system cannot locate WMI provider"

The AppAssure Agent has already been successfully protected and has been taking successful backups. On a random occurrence it appears the protected Agent has gone offline and will not come back online.

In troubleshooting efforts, you have:
1) Refreshed the metadata through the Core UI
2) Extended the client connection timeouts in the Core | Configuration | Settings
3) Restarted the Agent.Service
4) Restarted the Core.Service

Further investigation of the Agent if offline stacktrace reveal:

Replay.Core.Contracts.Agents.AgentIsOfflineException: Agent is offline ---> WCFClientBase.ClientServerErrorException: Call to service method https://AgentName:8006/apprecovery/api/agent/metadata/fullMetadata PUT failed: The system cannot locate WMI provider. Please check The WMI provider registration. Please, follow this link for more details 'http://docs.appassure.com/display/AA50D/WMI+Troubleshooting

---> Replay.Common.Contracts.WmiApi.WmiException: The system cannot locate WMI provider. Please check The WMI provider registration. Please, follow this link for more details 'http://docs.appassure.com/display/AA50D/WMI+Troubleshooting' ---> System.Management.ManagementException: Provider load failure

The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service/repository is having an issue querying management information from the protected server. Therefore it displays the Agent as offline or unable to connect.

To resolve this issue perform the following steps:
1) Verify that Windows is up to date as a preventative measure to avoid this error in the future
2) Restart the Windows Management Instrumentation service from services.msc. You can also elect to reboot the troubled server.
3) If the issue continues overtime, investigate the Application Event logs for WMI errors that need to be resolved.