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farhanahmed
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June 23, 2025

Technical Tip: How to lock/unlock an ADOM and commit changes in FortiManager using the JSON API

  • June 23, 2025
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Description This articles describes how to lock, unlock, and commit ADOM changes in FortiManager using the JSON API. Workspace mode must be enabled.
Scope FortiManager.
Solution

The following API request locks the FortiManager ADOM:

 

{
  "id": 1,
  "method": "exec",
  "params": [
    {
      "url": "/dvmdb/adom/{{ADOM}}/workspace/lock"
    }
  ],
  "session": "{{session}}"
}

 

Commit changes:

 

{
  "id": 1,
  "method": "exec",
  "params": [
    {
      "url": "/dvmdb/adom/{{ADOM}}/workspace/commit"
    }
  ],
  "session": "{{session}}"
}


Unlock ADOM:

 

{
  "id": 1,
  "method": "exec",
  "params": [
    {
      "url": "/dvmdb/adom/{{ADOM}}/workspace/unlock"
    }
  ],
  "session": "{{session}}"
}

 

API Collection is attached which can be imported to Postman.


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