diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
index 5f4211aa0..9533e8856 100644
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
@@ -887,8 +887,8 @@ 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 ipmi hw control operations to the service\n".
-   "                node of the target compute nodes. Default is 'y'.\n\n".
+   " hwctrldispatch:  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 391dbbb00..34efa20a2 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/PPC.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/PPC.pm
@@ -1981,7 +1981,7 @@ sub preprocess_request {
         my $service  = "xcat";
         my @hcps=keys(%hcp_hash);
         my $sn;
-        my @dfmdispatch = xCAT::TableUtils->get_site_attribute("dfmdispatch");
+        my @dfmdispatch = xCAT::TableUtils->get_site_attribute("hwctrldispatch");
         if (defined($dfmdispatch[0]) and ($dfmdispatch[0] =~ /0|n/i)) {
             if ($masters[0]) {
                 push @{$sn->{$masters[0]}}, @hcps;