When the PHP agent starts, it automatically starts the Java proxy that handles communication between the PHP agents and the controller.

Automatic startup of the proxy works for the great majority of situations. However, you can suppress the automatic startup of this script and run it manually. You would do this if:

• You plan to instrument a PHP CLI entry point. The PHP CLI entry point requires manual startup of the proxy and immediate creation of the node on startup.
• You have multiple Apache or FPM pools on the same machine reporting to the same proxy.

To do this, you first need to configure the agent for manual proxy launch. Then you need to launch the proxy manually.