diff --git a/services/provider/server/server.go b/services/provider/server/server.go
index 4776f0ba8f..d9c782ca81 100644
--- a/services/provider/server/server.go
+++ b/services/provider/server/server.go
@@ -221,10 +221,12 @@ func (s *OCSProviderServer) RDRCreateOrUpdateODFInfoMap(ctx context.Context, req
 		} else {
 			var odfVersion, cephFSId string
 			if odfVersion, err = s.getOdfVersion(ctx, &storageCluster); err != nil {
-				// todo: handle error here
+				// todo: empty? manually generated?
+				odfVersion = ""
 			}
 			if cephFSId, err = s.getCephFsid(ctx, &storageCluster); err != nil {
-				// todo: handle error here
+				// todo: empty? manually generated?
+				cephFSId = ""
 			}
 			var odfDeploymentType string
 			if storageCluster.Spec.ExternalStorage.Enable {