Hello Clare, On Nov 9, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Clare Sloggett wrote:

Hi all,

Most of our playing around with Galaxy has been in getting it working on our local cloud, but now for the first time I'm configuring a non-cloud local install of galaxy-dist (set up as per http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Config/Performance/Production%20Server)

So I have some naive questions!

Would it be a sensible approach to grab the tools_fabfile script from mi-deployment and use it in this case? Or should I be using the Tool Shed for installing the base set of tools?

The Galaxy distribution includes all of the tools you see on both the Penn State test and main instances. You can also get tools form the tool shed if you want - see our wiki at http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Tool%20Shed for information about how to do this. I don't think you'll need to use the tools_fabfile script from mi_deployment repo for your local instance.

Also, if I have problems with this server sending out emails (which may be the case) am I going to run into trouble with user/password management or can I just admin everything manually? There will only be a very small number of users on this server.

I'm not clear on this question, but you certainly shouldn't run into any problems with user / password management within Galaxy. From the Galaxy Admin interface you have the ability to "Manage users" where you can reset passwords if necessary.

If I have missed any good 'getting started' documentation on config/admin of a local install please point me in the right direction. I've been looking at http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin .

You found the right wiki.

Thanks, Clare

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