Spotlight Connection Errors

For the past week.  Overnight at about 00:00 - 01:00 at a certain time Spotlight throws up many errors when trying to connect to the monitored servers, errors such as:

Cannot connect to SQL Server instance '########' : A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The specified network name is no longer available.) : The specified network name is no longer available [64] (requires acknowledgement)    

and

Cannot connect to SQL Server instance '########' : A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.) : An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

Also many of the diagnostic queries timeout with a WMI timeout error.

There has been no changes to the diagnostic server or monitored servers and I think the error may be related to Networks or Security but am unsure what these errors relate exactly and so what to say to the team who I would have to forward this onto.