diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/openbmc.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/openbmc.pm
index 4ba2c2e82..1bea4b1a5 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/openbmc.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/openbmc.pm
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ sub handled_commands {
     return {
         rpower => 'nodehm:mgt',
         rinv   => 'nodehm:mgt',
+        getopenbmccons => 'nodehm:cons',
     };
 }
 
@@ -132,6 +133,7 @@ my $async;
 my $cookie_jar;
 
 my $callback;
+my %allerrornodes = ();
 
 #-------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -215,6 +217,7 @@ sub process_request {
     my $handle_id;
     my $content;
     $wait_node_num = keys %node_info;
+    my @donargs = ();
 
     foreach my $node (keys %node_info) {
         $bmcip = $node_info{$node}{bmc};
@@ -224,8 +227,18 @@ sub process_request {
         $handle_id_node{$handle_id} = $node;
         $node_info{$node}{cur_status} = $next_status{ $node_info{$node}{cur_status} };
         print "$node: DEBUG POST $login_url -d $content\n";
+        push @donargs, [ $node,$bmcip,$node_info{$node}{username}, $node_info{$node}{password}];
     }  
 
+    #process rcons
+    if ($request->{command}->[0] eq "getopenbmccons") {
+        foreach (@donargs) {
+            getopenbmccons($_, $callback);
+        }
+        return;
+    }
+
+
     while (1) { 
         last unless ($wait_node_num);
         while (my ($response, $handle_id) = $async->wait_for_next_response) {
@@ -624,5 +637,34 @@ sub rinv_response {
     return;
 }
 
+#-------------------------------------------------------
+
+=head3  getopenbmccons
+
+    Process getopenbmccons
+
+=cut
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------
+sub getopenbmccons {
+    my $argr = shift;
+
+    #$argr is [$node,$bmcip,$nodeuser,$nodepass];
+    my $callback = shift;
+
+    my $rsp;
+    my $node=$argr->[0];
+    my $output = "openbmc, getopenbmccoms";
+    xCAT::SvrUtils::sendmsg($output, $callback, $argr->[0], %allerrornodes);
+
+    $rsp = { node => [ { name => [ $argr->[0] ] } ] };
+    $rsp->{node}->[0]->{bmcip}->[0]    = $argr->[1];
+    $rsp->{node}->[0]->{username}->[0]    = $argr->[2];
+    $rsp->{node}->[0]->{passwd}->[0]  = $argr->[3];
+    $callback->($rsp);
+    return $rsp;
+}
+
+
 
 1;
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/cons/openbmc b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/cons/openbmc
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..172bb272e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/cons/openbmc
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+# IBM(c) 2017 EPL license http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+use Fcntl qw(:DEFAULT :flock);
+use Time::HiRes qw(sleep);
+use File::Path;
+BEGIN {
+    $::XCATROOT = $ENV{'XCATROOT'} ? $ENV{'XCATROOT'} : -d '/opt/xcat' ? '/opt/xcat' : '/usr';
+}
+my $sleepint = int(rand(10)); #Stagger start to avoid overwhelming conserver/xCATd
+my ($lockfd, $bmcip);
+my $username = 'root';
+my $password = '0penBmc';
+my $node     = $ARGV[0];
+
+use constant CONSOLE_LOCK_FILE => "/tmp/xcat/consolelock";
+use constant CONSOLE_LOCK_DIR => "/tmp/xcat";
+
+sub acquire_lock {
+    umask 0077;
+    mkpath(CONSOLE_LOCK_DIR);
+    print "Acquiring startup lock...";
+    unless (sysopen($lockfd, CONSOLE_LOCK_FILE, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT)) {
+        print "Unable to open file ".CONSOLE_LOCK_FILE."\n";
+        sleep(15);
+        exit 1;
+    }
+    unless (flock($lockfd, LOCK_EX)) {
+        print "Unable to lock file ".CONSOLE_LOCK_FILE."\n";
+        close($lockfd);
+        sleep(15);
+        exit 1;
+    }
+    print "done\n";
+    unless (syswrite($lockfd, $$, length($$))) {
+        print "Unable to write file ".CONSOLE_LOCK_FILE."\n";
+        close($lockfd);
+        sleep(15);
+        exit 1;
+    }
+}
+
+sub release_lock {
+    flock($lockfd, LOCK_UN);
+    close($lockfd);
+}
+
+
+use lib "$::XCATROOT/lib/perl";
+require xCAT::Client;
+
+sub getans {
+    my $rsp = shift;
+    if ($rsp->{node}) {
+        $bmcip = $rsp->{node}->[0]->{bmcip}->[0];
+        $username = $rsp->{node}->[0]->{username}->[0];
+        $password = $rsp->{node}->[0]->{passwd}->[0];
+        if (exists $rsp->{node}->[0]->{error}) {
+            my $error = $rsp->{node}->[0]->{error}->[0];
+            print "$error\n";
+        }
+        print "$bmcip, $username, $password\n";
+    }
+}
+my $cmdref = {
+    command   => ["getopenbmccons"],
+    arg       => ["text"],
+    noderange => [ $ARGV[0] ]
+};
+acquire_lock();
+# avoid of congestion
+sleep(0.1);
+release_lock();
+xCAT::Client::submit_request($cmdref, \&getans);
+
+until (($username or $password) and $bmcip ) {
+    #Let other clients have a go
+    $sleepint = 10 + int(rand(20));
+    print "Console not ready, retrying in $sleepint seconds (Ctrl-e,c,o to skip delay) \n";
+    sleep ($sleepint);
+    acquire_lock();
+    sleep(0.1);
+    release_lock();
+    xCAT::Client::submit_request($cmdref, \&getans);
+}
+
+my $isintel = 0;
+my $sleepint;
+my $rc;
+ 
+my $sshport = 2200;
+if ($ENV{SSHCONSOLEPORT}) {
+    $sshport= $ENV{SSHCONSOLEPORT};
+}
+
+print "If the console cannot connect, please verify whether ssh keys has been configured on the bmc for $username user\n";
+
+exec "ssh -p $sshport -l $username $bmcip";
+