You can configure fabric using force only via CLI.
The fabric configuration with force option from the REST API is deprecated from XCO 3.2.0 onwards. It is
supported only via CLI.
http://localhost:8081/v1/fabric/configure?fabric-name=fabg&force=true
Response: 500 Internal server
[
{
"ip-address": "",
"error": [
{ "code": 1727, "message": "force operation is not supported using REST API for this release use CLI" }
]
}
]