diff --git a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/discovery/mtms/discovery_using_defined.rst b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/discovery/mtms/discovery_using_defined.rst
index d69d5d706..f12aa1354 100644
--- a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/discovery/mtms/discovery_using_defined.rst
+++ b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/discovery/mtms/discovery_using_defined.rst
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ The BMC IP address is obtained by the open range dhcp server and the plan in thi
           serial=10112CA
           ip=10.1.2.1 
 
+#. Define the compute nodes into xCAT: ::
+
+       cat predefined.stanzas | mkdef -z 
 
 #. Set the chain table to run the ``bmcsetup`` script, this will set the BMC IP to static. ::
 
@@ -110,9 +113,6 @@ The BMC IP address is obtained by the open range dhcp server and the plan in thi
 
        chdef cn01 bmc=172.20.2.1 
 
-#. Define the compute nodes into xCAT: ::
-
-       cat predefined.stanzas | mkdef -z 
 
 #. Add the compute node IP information to ``/etc/hosts``: ::