diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
index dc5f93bf7..134bf3c26 100644
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ hosts => {
  },
   },
 ipmi => {
-    cols => [qw(node bmc bmcport taggedvlan username password comments disable )],
+    cols => [qw(node bmc bmcport taggedvlan bmcid username password comments disable )],
     keys => [qw(node)],
     table_desc => 'Settings for nodes that are controlled by an on-board BMC via IPMI.',
  descriptions => {
@@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ ipmi => {
   bmc => 'The hostname of the BMC adapater.',
   bmcport => 'In systems with selectable shared/dedicated ethernet ports, this parameter can be used to specify the preferred port.  0 means use the shared port, 1 means dedicated, blank is to not assign',
   taggedvlan => 'Have bmcsetup place the BMC on the specified vlan tag on a shared netwirk interface.  Some network devices may be incompatible with this option',
+  bmcid => 'Unique identified data used by discovery processes to distinguish known BMCs from unrecognized BMCs',
   username => 'The BMC userid.  If not specified, the key=ipmi row in the passwd table is used as the default.',
   password => 'The BMC password.  If not specified, the key=ipmi row in the passwd table is used as the default.',
      comments => 'Any user-written notes.',