diff --git a/scripts/check-run-nova-compute b/scripts/check-run-nova-compute
index 6227c83306..ccae3f6bb1 100755
--- a/scripts/check-run-nova-compute
+++ b/scripts/check-run-nova-compute
@@ -119,41 +119,11 @@ def create_nova_connection(options):
         region = None
     nova_versions = [ "2.23", "2" ]
     for version in nova_versions:
-        clientargs = inspect.getargspec(client.Client).varargs
-        # Some versions of Openstack prior to Ocata only
-        # supported positional arguments for username,
-        # password, and tenant.
-        #
-        # Versions since Ocata only support named arguments.
-        #
-        # So we need to use introspection to figure out how to
-        # create a Nova client.
-        #
-        # Happy days
-        #
-        if clientargs:
-            # OSP < Ocata
-            # ArgSpec(args=['version', 'username', 'password', 'project_id', 'auth_url'],
-            #         varargs=None,
-            #         keywords='kwargs', defaults=(None, None, None, None))
-            nova = client.Client(version,
-                                 None, # User
-                                 None, # Password
-                                 None, # Tenant
-                                 None, # Auth URL
-                                 insecure=options["insecure"],
-                                 region_name=region,
-                                 session=keystone_session, auth=keystone_auth,
-                                 http_log_debug="verbose" in options,
-                                 endpoint_type=nova_endpoint_type)
-        else:
-            # OSP >= Ocata
-            # ArgSpec(args=['version'], varargs='args', keywords='kwargs', defaults=None)
-            nova = client.Client(version,
-                                 region_name=region,
-                                 session=keystone_session, auth=keystone_auth,
-                                 http_log_debug="verbose" in options,
-                                 endpoint_type=nova_endpoint_type)
+        nova = client.Client(version,
+                             region_name=region,
+                             session=keystone_session, auth=keystone_auth,
+                             http_log_debug="verbose" in options,
+                             endpoint_type=nova_endpoint_type)
 
         try:
             nova.hypervisors.list()