diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
index db9126d65..15cc1bbb0 100644
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ statelite => {
 #seriously evaluate wider support of multi-domain environments, will leave them 
 #commented rather than tempt people to try with an expectation that it could work.
 domain => {
-    cols => [qw(node ou authdomain adminuser adminpassword comments disable)],
+    cols => [qw(node ou authdomain adminuser adminpassword type comments disable)],
     keys => ['node'],
     table_desc => 'Mapping of nodes to domain attributes',
     descriptions => {
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ domain => {
 	authdomain => 'If a node should participate in an AD domain or Kerberos realm distinct from domain indicated in site, this field can be used to specify that',
 	adminuser => 'Allow a node specific indication of Administrative user.  Most will want to just use passwd table to indicate this once rather than by node.',
 	adminpassword => 'Allow a node specific indication of Administrative user password for the domain.  Most will want to ignore this in favor of passwd table.',
+	type => 'Type, if any, of authentication domain to manipulate.  The only recognized value at the moment is activedirectory.',
 		comments => 'Any user-written notes.',
 		disable => "Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.",      
 	},
@@ -2124,6 +2125,10 @@ my @nodeattrs = (
                  tabentry => 'domain.authdomain',
                  access_tabentry => 'domain.node=attr:node',
                 },
+                {attr_name => 'domaintype',
+                 tabentry => 'domain.type',
+                 access_tabentry => 'domain.node=attr:node',
+                },
 ######################
 #  storage table     #
 ######################