diff --git a/provisioning_scripts/fibre_channel/invoke_fc_passthrough.sh b/provisioning_scripts/fibre_channel/invoke_fc_passthrough.sh
index c9f3645..5f3fefd 100644
--- a/provisioning_scripts/fibre_channel/invoke_fc_passthrough.sh
+++ b/provisioning_scripts/fibre_channel/invoke_fc_passthrough.sh
@@ -134,8 +134,7 @@ function is_device_online() {
    # string as a result of the following command.
    cmd="systool -c fc_host -v"
    OUTPUT=$(ssh -i $PROVIDER_KEY $PROVIDER_USER@$HYPERVISOR "systool -c fc_host -v")
-   test_fc_online="systool -c fc_host -v | grep -B12 'Online' | grep 'Class Device path' | grep '$fc_device'"
-   ONLINE=$(ssh -i $PROVIDER_KEY $PROVIDER_USER@$HYPERVISOR "$test_fc_online")
+   ONLINE=`echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -B12 'Online' | grep 'Class Device path' | grep $fc_device`
    echo "online result='$ONLINE'"
    if [ -z "$ONLINE" ]; then
        return 0;