Chapter 9 High Availability for FortiOS 5.0 : An introduction to the FGCP : HA override : Configuration changes can be lost if override is enabled : The solution
  
The solution
When override is enabled, you can prevent configuration changes from being lost by doing the following:
Verify that all cluster units are operating before making configuration changes (from the web-based manager go to System > Config > HA to view the cluster members list or from the FortiOS CLI enter get system ha status).
Make sure the device priority of the primary unit is set higher than the device priorities of all other cluster units before making configuration changes.
Disable override either permanently or until all configuration changes have been made and synchronized to all cluster units.