diff --git a/lib/bmc_network_utils.py b/lib/bmc_network_utils.py
index 7e91604..f3c6fea 100644
--- a/lib/bmc_network_utils.py
+++ b/lib/bmc_network_utils.py
@@ -178,10 +178,14 @@
     return vf.filter_struct(get_channel_config(), "[('medium_type', 'other-lan|lan-802.3')]", regex=1)
 
 
-def get_channel_access_config():
+def get_channel_access_config(file_name):
     r"""
     Get the channel access config data and return as a dictionary.
 
+    Description of argument:
+    file_name     File name for channel access settings (e.g. '/run/ipmi/channel_access_volatile.json',
+                 '/var/lib/ipmi/channel_access_nv.json'.).
+
     Example:
 
     channel_access_config =  get_channel_access_config()
@@ -201,6 +205,6 @@
             [alerting_disabled]:                          False
             [user_auth_disabled]:                         False
     """
-    stdout, stderr, rc = bsu.bmc_execute_command("cat /usr/share/ipmi-providers/channel_access.json")
+    stdout, stderr, rc = bsu.bmc_execute_command("cat " + file_name)
 
     return json.loads(stdout)