diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/replicas/BlockExistenceVerifier.java b/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/replicas/BlockExistenceVerifier.java
index 9d910700ea40..6970e951c86c 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/replicas/BlockExistenceVerifier.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/debug/replicas/BlockExistenceVerifier.java
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ public BlockVerificationResult verifyBlock(DatanodeDetails datanode, OmKeyLocati
     XceiverClientSpi client = null;
     try {
       Pipeline pipeline = Pipeline.newBuilder(keyLocation.getPipeline())
+          .setId(datanode.getID())
           .setReplicationConfig(StandaloneReplicationConfig.getInstance(ONE))
           .setNodes(Collections.singletonList(datanode))
           .setReplicaIndexes(Collections.singletonMap(datanode, replicaIndex))