Technical Note: How to change management VDOM from GUI and CLI

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Description

The management VDOM is set to root by default, this article explains how it can be changed.

Solution

The current setting of the management VDOM can be seen using:

#config global
#show full system global | grep management-vdom

To change the management VDOM from Root VDOM to an already created test VDOM via GUI

Select Global VDOM >System > VDOM > Select VDOM from the List > Click Switch Management [root]

On the 'Are you sure you want to switch management virtual domain to:test?' pop-up select OK.

The management VDOM can now be seen to have changed to test.

Change Management VDOM from Root VDOM to already created test VDOM via CLI

FGT # config global
FGT (global) # config system global
FGT (global) # set management-vdom test
FGT (global) #end
FGT (global) #end