How to stop chkservd monitoring Apache PHP-FPM on a LiteSpeed server?

Hello,

Environment:
- cPanel & WHM: 11.110.0.136
- OS: CloudLinux 7.9 (Boris Yegorov)
- Web server: LiteSpeed (lshttpd.service active; PHP served via lsphp)
- alt-php-config 1-69.el7, CageFS 7.6.38
- Apache PHP-FPM: unused — 0 domains have it enabled (grep -rl "php_fpm: 1" /var/cpanel/userdata/ returns nothing)

Goal:
Stop the ~200/day "The service apache_php_fpm appears to be down" emails. The service is genuinely unused (LiteSpeed handles all PHP via lsphp), so I want to disable chkservd monitoring of apache_php_fpm.

The problem in detail:
chkservd runs /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/restartsrv_apache_php_fpm every 5 minutes. That script attempts to start every alt-php-FPM pool, but all pools are configured to bind to the same port:

# grep -rH "^listen " /opt/alt/php*/etc/php-fpm.d/
/opt/alt/php70/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf:listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
/opt/alt/php71/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf:listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
/opt/alt/php72/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf:listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
/opt/alt/php73/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf:listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
/opt/alt/php74/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf:listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
/opt/alt/php80/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf:listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
/opt/alt/php81/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf:listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
/opt/alt/php82/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf:listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
/opt/alt/php83/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf:listen = 127.0.0.1:9000

Only one can bind; alt-php72/73 always fail:
Jul 16 17:03:35 ... php-fpm[26204]: ERROR: unable to bind listening socket for address '127.0.0.1:9000': Address already in use (98)
Jul 16 17:03:35 ... php-fpm[26204]: ERROR: FPM initialization failed

chkservd then reports the service down and emails. Fail counter is over 1000:

[XID ...] The "Apache PHP-FPM alt-73" service is down.
[XID ...] The "Apache PHP-FPM alt-72" service is down.
The subprocess "/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/restartsrv_apache_php_fpm" reported error number 29 when it ended.
[fail count:1017] Restarting apache_php_fpm.... [notify:failed service:apache_php_fpm]

What I've tried:

1. The documented API to turn off monitoring fails:
# whmapi1 configureservice service=apache_php_fpm monitored=0
---
metadata:
  command: configureservice
  reason: Failed to disable monitoring for apache_php_fpm.
  result: 0
  version: 1

2. enabled=0 similarly rejected.
3. Disabling the systemd units is no help — they were already disabled, and chkservd systemctl starts them on every cycle regardless:

# systemctl is-enabled alt-php72-fpm alt-php73-fpm
disabled
disabled

(chkservd restarts them anyway → fail → email.)

4. apache_php_fpm is not listed in /etc/chkserv.d/chkservd.conf (only cpanel_php_fpm:1, httpd:1, etc.), yet it is still being monitored — it appears to be a default-monitored "core" service via the service definition file /etc/chkserv.d/apache_php_fpm.

5. whmapi1 servicestatus shows:
display_name: PHP-FPM service for Apache
enabled: 1
installed: 1
name: apache_php_fpm
running: 0

Questions:
1. What is the supported way to stop chkservd from monitoring apache_php_fpm when Apache PHP-FPM is unused (LiteSpeed is the web server)? Why does configureservice … monitored=0 return "Failed to disable monitoring"?

2. Is the all-pools-on-port-9000 layout expected from alt-php-config/CloudLinux on a LiteSpeed box, or is it a misconfiguration I should correct (e.g., unique port or unix socket per pool)?

3. Short of a fix, is there an officially supported way to silence just this monitor (e.g., a tweak flag, or a supported chkservd exclude that survives cPanel updates)?

What I don't want to do: manually edit/remove /etc/chkserv.d/apache_php_fpm or hard-edit chkservd.conf, since cPanel may overwrite those on update. I'm looking for the supported path.

Thanks!