diff --git a/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/plugin_purestorage_cinder/lib/puppet/parser/functions/get_random_id.rb b/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/plugin_purestorage_cinder/lib/puppet/parser/functions/get_random_id.rb
index 856b92d..4177d15 100644
--- a/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/plugin_purestorage_cinder/lib/puppet/parser/functions/get_random_id.rb
+++ b/deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/plugin_purestorage_cinder/lib/puppet/parser/functions/get_random_id.rb
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-# Customm function to generate a random hex string of length arg[0].
+# Custom function to generate a random hex string of length arg[0].
 #
 # This is used to ensure we get unique tenant and user IDs that
 # are required for the glance image-cache for cinder
 
 module Puppet::Parser::Functions
-  newfunction(:get_random_id, :type => :rvalue, :doc => "returns a random 32 character hex string") do |args|
+  newfunction(:get_random_id, :type => :rvalue, :doc => "returns a random hex string of length args[0]") do |args|
     raise(Puppet::ParseError, "get_random_id(): Wrong number of arguments " +
       "given (#{args.size} for 1)") if args.size != 1
     numbers  = (0..9).to_a
     alpha = ('a'..'z').to_a
-    length = args[0]
+    length = args[0].to_i
     CHARS = (alpha + numbers)
     id = CHARS.sort_by { rand }.join[0...length]
     return id