This policy controls the logon type of Action Accounts or Run As Accounts, used by worker processes (MonitoringHost.exe) ...

This policy controls the logon type of Action Accounts or Run As Accounts, used by worker processes (MonitoringHost.exe) launched by the System Center Management Service.

In situations where the server being monitored has the "Interactive logon: Require smart card" security setting configured in its local security policy, the System Center Management Service running on that server will not be able to log on the worker processes using run as or action accounts (containing the credential of a domain account) because it does have access to the smart card. By switching to a logon type of Service, this problem can be avoided. However, some monitoring activities which access system resources requiring administrator or interactive logon privileges may not run successfully.

The default logon type is Interactive.