SCSM cumulative updates often require all management consoles to be updated once the infrastructure servers are updated. If you have a large amount of consoles this can be tedious. See my previous post for infrastructure upgrade steps: https://itprocessed.com/2011/12/upgrading-scsm-2010-sp1-to-cu3/
Upgrading SCSM 2010 SP1 to CU3
· Disable all connectors on the SCSM management server (CMDB) · Create an Encryption key backup for all Management servers · Backup all SCSM databases and the SSRS databases · Backup all management packs · Backup all DLLs for the