MANAGE YOUR GALAXY SERVER

You can control you galaxy server by connecting to a ssh shell session in your VM. Just remember that you can easily open this type of session using the Google Compute Engin dashboard, as you did before.

The preferred program to exert this control is galaxyctl which has to be invoked with the root rights.

The main options available with galaxyctl

The following commands won't work if you are not logged as root. (sudo -i at your initial connection)

• Check the state of the Galaxy server

  galaxyctl status
  

• Restart gently the Galaxy server

  galaxyctl graceful 
  

• Restart "firmly" the Galaxy server (if for whatever reason it is frozen)

  galaxyctl restart
  

• Follow the activity log of the Galaxy WEB server:

  galaxyctl follow
  

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