I've "inherited" a galaxy setup from someone (details: a contractor set it up but left it unfinished so I'm completing the job while discovering and documenting what was done). The catch: it's setup as a twin galaxy instance with one as a front-end web-server and the other as the job runner.

Admittedly the documentation is lighter on this sort of setup, but I've been able to puzzle it out until getting to the issue of toolsheds. We have a large number of custom tools we want to install from our own toolshed and the main Galaxy one. The problem: I'm not clear on how this supposed to work. Once I started installing tools, of course they all appeared in the front-end toolshed and are running on the front-end. Understandable - but not what I wanted. Does this mean that for every custom tool I install, I have to go to every Galaxy instance (frontend and job-runners) and install the tools into their toolshed? It would seem so, but this seems ... awkward.

tl;dr: Toolsheds and job-ruuners - how is that supposed to work? Is there a convenient way to handle this? Any pointers to documentation or experience? -- Paul Agapow (pma(a)agapow.net) ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/

Thanks Greg, In case you are not aware of it, the Galaxy tool shed wiki explains the tool shed: http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Tool%20Shed I am aware, thanks, although I won't exclude the possibility that I've misunderstood something ... > I've "inherited" a galaxy setup from someone (details: a contractor set it up but left it unfinished so I'm completing the job while discovering and documenting what was done). The catch: it's setup as a twin galaxy instance with one as a front-end web-server and the other as the job runner. Just to confirm, you have set up a single Galaxy instance (with a single database on the back-end) with multiple web front-ends - is this correct? Right - a single database with one web front-end and one job-runner. And here's a detail that I forgot and may be important ... they're on different machines. They share the db and a shared data space but are on different VMs. The Galaxy tool shed is a separate application that has no dependencies on a Galaxy instance (and vice-versa), although a Galaxy instance and a tool shed instance can each communicate with the other, so your question is a bit confusing. A single Galaxy tool shed can be used by any number of Galaxy instances, so if you create a repository in a tool shed instance and upload tools to it, any number of Galaxy instances will be able to access that tool shed and install the repositories from it. Right - but setting up the toolshed is not the confusing point for me. It's how the job-runner gets to use a tool installed from a toolshed when it's on a different machine to the front-end. The tool has to be installed into the job-runner as well, right? As said, I inherited this system, so I'm discovering how it's been setup. cheers p -- Paul Agapow (pma(a)agapow.net)