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April 28, 2026

Technical Tip: Unable to delete CA server from FortiNAC Manager

  • April 28, 2026
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Description

This article describes an issue where a CA server cannot be deleted from FortiNAC Manager.

Scope

FortiNAC-F, FortiNAC-F M.

Solution

In some scenarios, a FortiNAC CA server has been integrated with FortiNAC manager and cannot be deleted from the GUI, which throws the error '1 CA Failed'.

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An alternative option is to check the deletion from the database side of FortiNAC.

Log in to the CLI and go to 'db-shell':

execute db-shell


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After finding the correct entry from the table, remove it:

MariaDB [bsc]> DELETE FROM ca_info WHERE ca_id = xxxxxxxxxxxx;


Replace 'xxxxxxxxxxxx' with the correct ca_id from the table.

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Verify the entry was removed:

MariaDB [bsc]> SELECT ca_id,ip,sn FROM ca_info;
Empty set (0.000 sec)

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