diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/iad2 b/inventory/group_vars/iad2
index e6199612a5..e3b27e2ec9 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/iad2
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/iad2
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 dns1: "10.3.163.33"
 dns2: "10.3.163.34"
 
-
+ipa_server: ipa01.iad2.fedoraproject.org
 
 # for now, lets not monitor any of them from phx2.