diff --git a/lib/facter/stonith_levels.rb b/lib/facter/stonith_levels.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8d8089b90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/facter/stonith_levels.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+Facter.add('stonith_levels') do
+  setcode do
+
+    hostname = Facter::Core::Execution.execute("crm_node -n 2> /dev/null", {})
+
+    stonith_levels = Facter::Core::Execution.execute("pcs stonith level | sed -n \"/^Target: #{hostname}$/,/^Target:/{/^Target: #{hostname}$/b;/^Target:/b;p}\" |tail -1 | awk '{print $2}' 2> /dev/null", {})
+
+    stonith_levels
+  end
+end
diff --git a/manifests/fencing.pp b/manifests/fencing.pp
index d64cb05cf..4888cecdd 100644
--- a/manifests/fencing.pp
+++ b/manifests/fencing.pp
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class tripleo::fencing(
   $content = $config['devices']
 
   # check if the devices: section in fence.yaml contains levels.
-  # if it doesn't, assume level=1 an build a hash with the content.
+  # if it doesn't, assume level=1 and build a hash with the content.
   if is_array($content) {
     $all_levels = {'level1' => $content}
   }
@@ -92,6 +92,26 @@ class tripleo::fencing(
     $all_levels = $content
   }
 
+  # collect the number of stonith levels currently defined for this system
+  # and convert it to integer.
+  $local_levels = 0 + $facts['stonith_levels']
+
+  # if the number of levels defined on this system is greather than the number in hiera
+  # we need to delete the delta.
+  if $local_levels > $all_levels.length {
+    $begin = $all_levels.length + 1
+    range("${begin}", "${local_levels}").each |$level|{
+        pacemaker::stonith::level{ "stonith-${level}":
+          ensure            => 'absent',
+          level             => $level,
+          target            => '$(/usr/sbin/crm_node -n)',
+          stonith_resources => [''],
+          tries             => $tries,
+          try_sleep         => $try_sleep,
+        }
+    }
+  }
+
   $all_levels.each |$index, $levelx_devices |{
 
     $level = regsubst($index, 'level', '', 'G')