diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
index a25af5613..639c2f93d 100644
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
@@ -848,8 +848,8 @@ site => {
    "              match the path in the installdir attribute.\n\n".
    " ipmidispatch:  Whether or not to send ipmi hw control operations to the service\n".
    "                node of the target compute nodes. Default is 'y'.\n\n".
-   " dfmdispatch:  Whether or not to send DFM hw control operations to the service\n".
-   "                node of the target compute nodes. Default is 'y'.\n\n".
+   " hdctldispatch:  Whether or not to send hw control operations to the service\n".
+   "                node of the target nodes. Default is 'y'.\n\n".
    " ipmimaxp:  The max # of processes for ipmi hw ctrl. The default is 64. Currently,\n".
    "            this is only used for HP hw control.\n\n".
    " ipmiretries:  The # of retries to use when communicating with BMCs. Default is 3.\n\n".
diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/PPC.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/PPC.pm
index 44c3aee1e..ca5a6baf5 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/PPC.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/PPC.pm
@@ -2000,8 +2000,8 @@ sub preprocess_request {
         # build an individual request for each service node
         my $service  = "xcat";
         my @hcps=keys(%hcp_hash);
-        my $sn; 
-        my @dfmdispatch = xCAT::Utils->get_site_attribute("dfmdispatch");
+        my $sn;
+        my @dfmdispatch = xCAT::Utils->get_site_attribute("hdctldispatch");
         if (defined($dfmdispatch[0]) and ($dfmdispatch[0] =~ /0|n/i)) {
             if ($masters[0]) {
                 push @{$sn->{$masters[0]}}, @hcps;