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- Overhaul Spine documentation (Spine.md) with complete end-to-end guide: architecture, prerequisites for modern distros (EL8/9 CRB, Ubuntu 22/24, Debian 11/12, FreeBSD), SUID root permissions, secure spine.conf setup (0640), Web UI configuration (Paths, Poller type, Data Collectors tuning), MySQL max_connections sizing, and troubleshooting.
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# Site Management
This section will describe **Site** management in Cacti.
Sites in Cacti can be used to separate different parts of your company
with the respective location devices. For example, you can have a site
called **123 main street** in which you can associate all of the devices
that are in the physical location to the Cacti site. This could also
be a customer site or data center location
![Cacti Sites page](images/sites.png).
Below is an example of some of the attribute data you can enter for the
site/location
Enter the appropriate information for the site and click **Create** in the
lower right corner:
![cacti add sites](images/add-site.png)
Once a site has been created, you can associate devices with it when adding
or editing a device:
![cacti add device site](images/add-device-site.png)
You can also associate the discovered devices via automation to a
particular site.
![cacti sites automation](images/site-automation.png).
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