Extensions

Platform extensions provide additional functionality. In order to disable an extension, open you php.ini with a text editor and remove the extension lines (if present) or in Windows go to Services (Start | Settings | Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services) and stop the service (double-click on the service name and in the "Startup Type" field select the option "Disabled'):

zend_extension_manager.optimizer

Description	Controls the Zend Optimizer component.
To Enable	Automatically configured during installation.
To Disable	Remove the line from your php.ini
Resulting Outcome	PHP code will not be optimized and files encoded with Guard will not run. Users may notice a decrease in performance after disabling the Optimizer.

zend_extension_manager.download_server (not applicable in Windows)

Description	Controls the Zend download server component.
To Enable	Automatically configured during installation.
To Disable	Remove the line from your php.ini
Resulting Outcome	Files defined in the mime_types file will not be serviced by the download server and will start consuming additional bandwidth.

zend_extension_manager.platform

Description	platform.so or platform.dll (in Windows) includes the components; Accelerator and Zend Cache.
To Enable	Automatically configured during installation.
To Disable	Remove the line from your php.ini
Resulting Outcome	Disables Acceleration and Caching.

zend_extension_manager.monitor

Description	monitor.so or monitor.dll (in Windows) includes the monitoring component.
To Enable	Automatically configured during installation.
To Disable	Remove the line from your php.ini
Resulting Outcome	Disables Monitoring (PHP Intelligence).

Zend Platform Action (Windows Only)

Description	Checks if there are actions associated with an Event when an Event is added to the DB and executes them.
To Enable	Automatically configured during installation.
To Disable	Remove the line from your php.ini
Resulting Outcome	Actions associated with events will not be executed.

Zend Platform Pinger (Windows Only)

Description	This process periodically makes a query to nodes to verify activity and status (OS, PHP version, etc.)
To Enable	Automatically configured during installation.
To Disable	Remove the line from your php.ini
Resulting Outcome	Nodes will not be checked for activity and status and should be manually checked.

Zend Platform Collector Center

Description	Collects and aggregates information from nodes in the cluster that is displayed in the PHP Intelligence module.
To Enable	Automatically configured during installation.
To Disable	Remove the line from your php.ini
Resulting Outcome	Event information will not be collected from Nodes, this is equivalent to disabling the cluster configuration and deactivating PHP intelligence

Zend Platform Node Collector

Description	A daemon process that receives Events from Platform Nodes.
To Enable	Automatically configured during installation.
To Disable	Remove the line from your php.ini
Resulting Outcome	Event information will not be collected from nodes, this is equivalent to disabling the cluster configuration and deactivating PHP intelligence.

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