diff --git a/tools/testing-server/constants.js b/tools/testing-server/constants.js
index 300f8f316..215ccd91a 100644
--- a/tools/testing-server/constants.js
+++ b/tools/testing-server/constants.js
@@ -1,16 +1,39 @@
 const path = require('path')
+const yargs = require('yargs/yargs')
+const { hideBin } = require('yargs/helpers')
+const fs = require('fs')
+const args = yargs(hideBin(process.argv)).argv
 
-const defaultAgentConfig = {
-  licenseKey: 'asdf',
-  applicationID: 42,
-  accountID: 123,
-  agentID: 456,
-  trustKey: 789
+let agentConfig
+if (args.B) {
+  try {
+    agentConfig = JSON.parse(args.B)
+  } catch (err) {
+    try {
+      agentConfig = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(args.B, 'utf-8'))
+    } catch (err) {
+      console.error('Failed to parse BAM config:', err)
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/** fallback if no override was provided or override outright failed to parse correctly */
+if (!agentConfig) {
+  agentConfig = {
+    licenseKey: 'asdf',
+    applicationID: 42,
+    accountID: 123,
+    agentID: 456,
+    trustKey: 789
+  }
 }
-module.exports.defaultAgentConfig = defaultAgentConfig
+
+module.exports.agentConfig = agentConfig
+
+console.log('Starting service using agent config -- ', agentConfig)
 
 const mockEntityGuid = () => {
-  return btoa(`${defaultAgentConfig.accountID}|BROWSER|APPLICATION|${Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000000)}`).replace(/=/g, '')
+  return btoa(`${agentConfig.accountID}|BROWSER|APPLICATION|${Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000000)}`).replace(/=/g, '')
 }
 
 module.exports.paths = {
diff --git a/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/config-transform.js b/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/config-transform.js
index 69f2d1a89..47f091af6 100644
--- a/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/config-transform.js
+++ b/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/config-transform.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ const { Transform } = require('stream')
 const debugShim = require('./debug-shim')
 const sslShim = require('./ssl-shim')
 const {
-  defaultAgentConfig,
+  agentConfig,
   loaderConfigKeys,
   loaderOnlyConfigKeys
 } = require('../../constants')
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ function getConfigContent (request, reply, testServer) {
 
   const config = {
     agent: `${testServer.assetServer.host}:${testServer.assetServer.port}/build/nr.js`,
-    beacon: `${testServer.bamServer.host}:${testServer.bamServer.port}`,
-    errorBeacon: `${testServer.bamServer.host}:${testServer.bamServer.port}`,
-    ...defaultAgentConfig,
+    beacon: `${testServer.bamServer.host}:${testServer.bamServer.port}`, // these will be overridden by agentConfig if supplied
+    errorBeacon: `${testServer.bamServer.host}:${testServer.bamServer.port}`, // these will be overridden by agentConfig if supplied
+    ...agentConfig,
     ...queryConfig
   }
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ function getConfigContent (request, reply, testServer) {
     ? `NREUM.loader_config=${loaderConfigJSON};`
     : ''
 
-  return `${sslShim}window.NREUM||(NREUM={});NREUM.info=${infoJSON};${loaderConfigAssignment}${
+  return `${sslShim()}window.NREUM||(NREUM={});NREUM.info=${infoJSON};${loaderConfigAssignment}${
     testServer.config.debugShim ? debugShim : ''
   }`
 }
diff --git a/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/init-transform.js b/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/init-transform.js
index 20868b8cf..6bf353a9e 100644
--- a/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/init-transform.js
+++ b/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/init-transform.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ const { Transform } = require('stream')
 const { defaultInitBlock } = require('../../constants')
 const { deepmerge } = require('deepmerge-ts')
 const { deserialize } = require('../../../shared/serializer.js')
+const sslShim = require('./ssl-shim.js')
 
 /**
  * Constructs the agent init script block based on the init query.
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ function getInitContent (request, reply, testServer) {
 
   initJSON = initJSON.replace(/"new RegExp\((.*?)\)"/g, 'new RegExp($1)')
 
-  return `window.NREUM||(NREUM={});NREUM.init=${initJSON};NREUM.init.ssl=false;`
+  return sslShim(initJSON)
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/loader-transform.js b/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/loader-transform.js
index fd63723ce..72d64695e 100644
--- a/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/loader-transform.js
+++ b/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/loader-transform.js
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ module.exports = function (request, reply, testServer) {
       function replaceLoaderPlaceholder (chunkString, loaderScript) {
         return chunkString.replace(
           '{loader}',
-          `<script type="text/javascript" ${nonce}>${sslShim}</script>${loaderScript}`
+          `<script type="text/javascript" ${nonce}>${sslShim()}</script>${loaderScript}`
         )
       }
       while (chunkString.indexOf('{loader}') > -1) {
diff --git a/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/ssl-shim.js b/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/ssl-shim.js
index ff7a5af01..db75fd215 100644
--- a/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/ssl-shim.js
+++ b/tools/testing-server/plugins/agent-injector/ssl-shim.js
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
+const yargs = require('yargs')
+const { hideBin } = require('yargs/helpers')
+const args = yargs(hideBin(process.argv)).argv
+
 /**
  * This script is injected into test HTML pages to disable SSL in the agent.
  */
-module.exports = 'window.NREUM||(NREUM={});NREUM.init||(NREUM.init={});NREUM.init.ssl=false;'
+module.exports = (initString = '{}') => `window.NREUM||(NREUM={});NREUM.init||(NREUM.init=${initString});NREUM.init.ssl=${!!args.B};`
diff --git a/tools/wdio/args.mjs b/tools/wdio/args.mjs
index 3edaf6500..71393d887 100644
--- a/tools/wdio/args.mjs
+++ b/tools/wdio/args.mjs
@@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ const args = yargs(hideBin(process.argv))
   .default('webview', false)
   .describe('webview', 'Run webview tests')
 
+  .string('B')
+  .alias('B', 'report-to-bam')
+  .describe('B', 'Supply a JSON string or file path with expected BAM configs to send agent traffic to BAM instead of local service')
+
   .middleware(argv => {
     if (argv.webview && (!argv.browsers || argv.browsers === 'chrome@latest')) {
       argv.browsers = argv.b = 'ios@latest,android@latest'