Check to see that the production farm is online and running. 2) Check to see that the WSSCmdletWrapper DCOM component is ...

1) Check to see that the production farm is online and running. 
2) Check to see that the WSSCmdletWrapper DCOM component is configured correctly on the front-end web server hosting the production farm. 
 For more information, see the System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 DPM Operations Guide. 
3) Check that farm admin has adequate permissions to create unattached content database on the specified SQL Server instance