diff --git a/xCAT-client/podchecker b/xCAT-client/podchecker
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9bd3cd2da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-client/podchecker
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+    eval 'exec perl -S $0 "$@"'
+        if 0;
+#############################################################################
+# podchecker -- command to invoke the podchecker function in Pod::Checker
+#
+# Copyright (c) 1998-2000 by Bradford Appleton. All rights reserved.
+# This file is part of "PodParser". PodParser is free software;
+# you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms
+# as Perl itself.
+#############################################################################
+
+use strict;
+#use diagnostics;
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+podchecker - check the syntax of POD format documentation files
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+B<podchecker> [B<-help>] [B<-man>] [B<-(no)warnings>] [I<file>S< >...]
+
+=head1 OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS
+
+=over 8
+
+=item B<-help>
+
+Print a brief help message and exit.
+
+=item B<-man>
+
+Print the manual page and exit.
+
+=item B<-warnings> B<-nowarnings>
+
+Turn on/off printing of warnings. Repeating B<-warnings> increases the
+warning level, i.e. more warnings are printed. Currently increasing to
+level two causes flagging of unescaped "E<lt>,E<gt>" characters.
+
+=item I<file>
+
+The pathname of a POD file to syntax-check (defaults to standard input).
+
+=back
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+B<podchecker> will read the given input files looking for POD
+syntax errors in the POD documentation and will print any errors
+it find to STDERR. At the end, it will print a status message
+indicating the number of errors found.
+
+Directories are ignored, an appropriate warning message is printed.
+
+B<podchecker> invokes the B<podchecker()> function exported by B<Pod::Checker>
+Please see L<Pod::Checker/podchecker()> for more details.
+
+=head1 RETURN VALUE
+
+B<podchecker> returns a 0 (zero) exit status if all specified
+POD files are ok.
+
+=head1 ERRORS
+
+B<podchecker> returns the exit status 1 if at least one of
+the given POD files has syntax errors.
+
+The status 2 indicates that at least one of the specified 
+files does not contain I<any> POD commands.
+
+Status 1 overrides status 2. If you want unambiguous
+results, call B<podchecker> with one single argument only.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<Pod::Parser> and L<Pod::Checker>
+
+=head1 AUTHORS
+
+Please report bugs using L<http://rt.cpan.org>.
+
+Brad Appleton E<lt>bradapp@enteract.comE<gt>,
+Marek Rouchal E<lt>marekr@cpan.orgE<gt>
+
+Based on code for B<Pod::Text::pod2text(1)> written by
+Tom Christiansen E<lt>tchrist@mox.perl.comE<gt>
+
+=cut
+
+
+use Pod::Checker;
+use Pod::Usage;
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+## Define options
+my %options;
+
+## Parse options
+GetOptions(\%options, qw(help man warnings+ nowarnings))  ||  pod2usage(2);
+pod2usage(1)  if ($options{help});
+pod2usage(-verbose => 2)  if ($options{man});
+
+if($options{nowarnings}) {
+  $options{warnings} = 0;
+}
+elsif(!defined $options{warnings}) {
+  $options{warnings} = 1; # default is warnings on
+}
+
+## Dont default to STDIN if connected to a terminal
+pod2usage(2) if ((@ARGV == 0) && (-t STDIN));
+
+## Invoke podchecker()
+my $status = 0;
+@ARGV = qw(-) unless(@ARGV);
+for my $podfile (@ARGV) {
+    if($podfile eq '-') {
+      $podfile = '<&STDIN';
+    }
+    elsif(-d $podfile) {
+      warn "podchecker: Warning: Ignoring directory '$podfile'\n";
+      next;
+    }
+    my $errors =
+      podchecker($podfile, undef, '-warnings' => $options{warnings});
+    if($errors > 0) {
+        # errors occurred
+        $status = 1;
+        printf STDERR ("%s has %d pod syntax %s.\n",
+          $podfile, $errors,
+          ($errors == 1) ? 'error' : 'errors');
+    }
+    elsif($errors < 0) {
+        # no pod found
+        $status = 2 unless($status);
+        print STDERR "$podfile does not contain any pod commands.\n";
+    }
+    else {
+        print STDERR "$podfile pod syntax OK.\n";
+    }
+}
+exit $status;
+
diff --git a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/mkzone.1.pod b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/mkzone.1.pod
index 993551538..e5a6310f7 100644
--- a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/mkzone.1.pod
+++ b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/mkzone.1.pod
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ B<mkzone> <zonename>  [B<--defaultzone>] [B<-k> I<full path to the ssh RSA priva
 
 B<mkzone> [B<-h> | B<-v>]
 
-
 =head1 B<DESCRIPTION>
 
 The B<mkzone> command is designed to divide the xCAT cluster into multiple zones. The nodes in each zone will share common root ssh keys. This allows the nodes in a zone to be able to as root ssh to each other without password, but cannot do the same to any node in another zone. All zones share a common xCAT Management Node and database including the site table, which defines the attributes of the entire cluster.
@@ -64,10 +63,8 @@ Used with the (-a) flag to create the group zonename for all nodes in the input
 
 Verbose mode.
 
-
 =back
 
-
 =head1 B<Examples>
 
 =over 3
@@ -110,7 +107,7 @@ B<mkzone> I<zone4>  -a compute4  -g
 To make a new zone5 and assign the noderange compute5 to the zone and add zone5 as a group to each node but not allow passwordless ssh between the nodes  enter:
 
 B<mkzone> I<zone5>  -a compute5  -g -s no
- 
+
 =back
 
 B<Files>