diff --git a/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/nodestat.pm b/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/nodestat.pm
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..39aefd5b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/nodestat.pm
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+package xCAT_plugin::nodestat;
+
+use Socket;
+use Data::Dumper;
+
+sub handled_commands {
+   return { 
+      nodestat => 'nodestat',
+   };
+}
+
+sub pinghost {
+   my $node = shift;
+   my $rc = system("ping -q -n -c 1 -w 1 $node > /dev/null");
+   if ($rc == 0) {
+      return 1;
+   } else {
+      return 0;
+   }
+}
+
+sub nodesockopen {
+   my $node = shift;
+   my $port = shift;
+   my $socket;
+   my $addr = gethostbyname($node);
+   my $sin = sockaddr_in($port,$addr);
+   my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
+   socket($socket,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,$proto) || return 0;
+   connect($socket,$sin) || return 0;
+   return 1;
+}
+
+sub installer_query {
+   my $node = shift;
+   my $destport = 3001;
+   my $socket;
+   my $text = "";
+   my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
+   socket($socket,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,$proto) || return 0;
+   my $addr = gethostbyname($node);
+   my $sin = sockaddr_in($destport,$addr);
+   connect($socket,$sin) || return 0;
+   print $socket "stat \r";
+   print "stat \r";
+   print "here we go\n";
+   while (<$socket>) { 
+      print $_."\n";
+      $text.=$_;
+   }
+   print "here we go\n";
+   return $text;
+   close($socket);
+}
+
+
+
+
+
+sub process_request {
+   my $request = shift;
+   my $callback = shift;
+   my @nodes = @{$request->{node}};
+   $callback->({data=>Dumper(\@nodes)});
+   my $node;
+   foreach $node (@nodes) {
+      my %rsp;
+      my $text="";
+      $rsp{name}=[$node];
+      unless (pinghost($node)) {
+         $rsp{data} = [ 'noping' ];
+         $callback->({node=>[\%rsp]});
+         next;
+      }
+      if (nodesockopen($node,15002)) {
+         $rsp{data} = [ 'pbs' ];
+         $callback->({node=>[\%rsp]});
+         next;
+      } elsif (nodesockopen($node,22)) {
+         $rsp{data} = [ 'sshd' ];
+         $callback->({node=>[\%rsp]});
+         next;
+      } elsif ($text = installer_query($node)) {
+         $rsp{data} = [ $text ];
+         $callback->({node=>[\%rsp]});
+         next;
+      } else {
+         $rsp{data} = [ 'ping' ];
+         $callback->({node=>[\%rsp]});
+         next;
+      }
+   }
+}
+
+1;