echo/print variable question

Shell Programming and Scripting
1 
while read filer ; do echo $filer $1 $2; ssh $filer vfiler status -r | awk '/running/{host=$1}/Path:/{path=$2;print host,path}'; done < filers.list

this will print

node1
vfiler0 /
vfiler2 /vol/vfiler2_vol0
vfilert /vol/vfiler_vol
vfilert /vol/virt_vol

where node1 = $filer.
however how do i get $filer printed on each line, before {host=$1} ?

2 
while read filer ; 
do 
   echo $filer $1 $2; 
   ssh $filer vfiler status -r | 
            awk -v filer="$filer"  '/running/{host=$1}/Path:/{path=$2;print filer,host,path}'; 

done < filers.list