diff --git a/shell/regression/testcases/Makefile.am b/shell/regression/testcases/Makefile.am
index c819d71430..7c17e4bdff 100644
--- a/shell/regression/testcases/Makefile.am
+++ b/shell/regression/testcases/Makefile.am
@@ -1,32 +1,32 @@
 #
 # Author: Sun Jiang Dong <sunjd@cn.ibm.com>
 # Copyright (c) 2004 International Business Machines
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 # 
 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 # GNU General Public License for more details.
 # 
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
 #
 MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in
 
 testcasesdir		= 	$(datadir)/$(PACKAGE)/tests/shell/testcases
-testcases_SCRIPTS	=	confbasic-xml.filter xmlonly.sh
+testcases_SCRIPTS	=	confbasic-xml.filter ra.filter xmlonly.sh
 testcases_DATA		=	BSC basicset common.excl \
 	confbasic confbasic-xml delete file node ra resource shadow \
 	confbasic-xml.exp confbasic.exp delete.exp file.exp \
 	node.exp ra.exp resource.exp shadow.exp
 
 confbasic-xml.filter:
 	ln xmlonly.sh $@
 
 #			shouldn't need this next line...
 EXTRA_DIST =		$(testcases_SCRIPTS) $(testcases_DATA)
diff --git a/shell/regression/testcases/ra.filter b/shell/regression/testcases/ra.filter
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..a964613d4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shell/regression/testcases/ra.filter
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/usr/bin/awk -f
+# reduce the providers list to heartbeat and pacemaker
+# (prevents other providers creeping in)
+function reduce(a) {
+	a["heartbeat"]=1; a["pacemaker"]=1;
+	s="";
+	for( i=1; i<=NF; i++ )
+		if( $i in a )
+			s=s" "$i;
+	return substr(s,2);
+}
+n==1 { n=0; print reduce(a); next; }
+/providers IPaddr/ { n=1; }
+/providers Dummy/ { n=1; }
+{ print }