diff --git a/test_set/cvp-sanity/tests/test_nova_services.py b/test_set/cvp-sanity/tests/test_nova_services.py
index 14881a6..62a3428 100644
--- a/test_set/cvp-sanity/tests/test_nova_services.py
+++ b/test_set/cvp-sanity/tests/test_nova_services.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 def test_nova_hosts_consistent(local_salt_client):
     # exclude bmt* nodes because they also have nova-compute running
     # but they are not the hypervisors
-    ironic = local_salt_client.test_ping(tgt='ironic:client')
+    ironic = local_salt_client.test_ping(tgt='ironic:conductor')
     if ironic:
         ironic_nodes = [i.split('.')[0] for i in ironic]
         grep_exclude_ironic = "| egrep -v '{}'".format("|".join(ironic_nodes))