Technical Tip: Enable and disable VDOM admin
Description
This article describes how to enable and disable VDOM admin.
Scope
Any supported version of FortiGate.
Solution
After the VDOM admin is enabled, even if no VDOMs are available, the default VDOM will be root.
In some cases, users do not need any VDOM (not even the root), but the default VDOM still exists.
In these cases, it is recommended to disable the VDOM admin so that all of the configuration falls under global configuration settings.
To disable the VDOM admin, run the following commands:
config global
config system global
set vdom-admin disable
end
In FortiOS v7.0.x, use the following command to disable multi-VDOM mode:
config global
config system global
set vdom-mode no-vdom
end
To enable VDOM, navigate to System -> Settings and enable Virtual Domains.
After enabling virtual domains, will get a prompt to re-login, after re-login virtual domain will be enabled.
Some of the models support the set edit-vdom-prompt command under the config system global
For the models that have that command, the Virtual domain radio button would be seen under System -> Settings.
For the models that do not support that command, the Virtual Domain radio button will only be visible after enabling VDOMs from the CLI.
To disable VDOM, in Global VDOM navigate to System -> Settings and Disable Virtual Domains.
Note: Every time after enabling and disabling virtual domains, need to re-login to the firewall to apply changes.
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