diff --git a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/getadapter.1.rst b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/getadapter.1.rst
index d1046d6ca..7bd216c97 100644
--- a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/getadapter.1.rst
+++ b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/getadapter.1.rst
@@ -33,12 +33,11 @@ Traditionally, network interfaces in Linux are enumerated as eth[0123...], but t
 
 \ **getadapter**\  use genesis to collect network adapters information, so that mean it need to restart the target node.
 
-\ **getadapter**\  follows below scheme:
+\ **getadapter**\  For each node within the <noderange>, follows below scheme:
 
-If the target node is scaned for the first time, \ **getadapter**\  will trigger genesis to collect information then save the information at local.
-If the target node has ever been scaned, i.e. this node has network device information in local, \ **getadapter**\  use the local information first.
-If user doesn't want to use local information, can use \ **-f**\  option to force to trigger new round scan process.
-if part nodes of \ *noderange*\  don't have network device information in local and the rest have, \ **getadapter**\  only trigger real scan process for these nodes which don't have local information, the nodes have network device information in local, \ **getadapter**\  still use the local information first.
+If the target node is scaned for the first time, \ **getadapter**\  will trigger genesis to collect information then save the information at the \ **nicsadapter**\  column of nics table.
+If the target node has ever been scaned,  \ **getadapter**\  will use the information from nics table first.
+If user hopes to scan the adapter information for the node but these information already exist, \ **-f**\  option can be used to start rescan process.
 
 \ **getadapter**\  tries to collect more information for the  target network device,  but doesn't guarantee collect same much information for every network device.
 
diff --git a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/getadapter.1.pod b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/getadapter.1.pod
index 2fca0dac1..0c10af7a1 100644
--- a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/getadapter.1.pod
+++ b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/getadapter.1.pod
@@ -14,12 +14,11 @@ Traditionally, network interfaces in Linux are enumerated as eth[0123...], but t
 
 B<getadapter> use genesis to collect network adapters information, so that mean it need to restart the target node.
 
-B<getadapter> follows below scheme:
+B<getadapter> For each node within the <noderange>, follows below scheme:
 
-If the target node is scaned for the first time, B<getadapter> will trigger genesis to collect information then save the information at local.
-If the target node has ever been scaned, i.e. this node has network device information in local, B<getadapter> use the local information first.
-If user doesn't want to use local information, can use B<-f> option to force to trigger new round scan process.
-if part nodes of I<noderange> don't have network device information in local and the rest have, B<getadapter> only trigger real scan process for these nodes which don't have local information, the nodes have network device information in local, B<getadapter> still use the local information first.
+If the target node is scaned for the first time, B<getadapter> will trigger genesis to collect information then save the information at the B<nicsadapter> column of nics table.
+If the target node has ever been scaned,  B<getadapter> will use the information from nics table first.
+If user hopes to scan the adapter information for the node but these information already exist, B<-f> option can be used to start rescan process.
 
 B<getadapter> tries to collect more information for the  target network device,  but doesn't guarantee collect same much information for every network device.
 
diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/getadapter.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/getadapter.pm
index ccacbad75..19edc1817 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/getadapter.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/getadapter.pm
@@ -304,66 +304,16 @@ sub deploy_genesis {
         my ($node, $node_desc_ptr, $callback, $subreq) = @_;
         my $outref = xCAT::Utils->runxcmd(
             {
-                command => ['nodeset'],
+                command => ['rinstall'],
                 node    => ["$node"],
                 arg     => ['runcmd=getadapter'],
             },
             $subreq, 0, 1);
         if ($::RUNCMD_RC != 0) {
-            $callback->({ error => "failed to run command: nodeset $node runcmd=getadapter", errorcode => 1 });
-            return 1;
-        }
-
-        # TODO: use rinstall to replace the following code when rinstall is ready.
-        if ($node_desc_ptr->{mgt} eq "ipmi") {
-            $outref = xCAT::Utils->runxcmd(
-                {
-                    command => ["rsetboot"],
-                    node    => ["$node"],
-                    arg     => ['net'],
-                },
-                $subreq, 0, 1);
-            if ($::RUNCMD_RC != 0) {
-                $callback->({ error => "failed to run command: rsetboot $node net", errorcode => 1 });
-                return 1;
+            foreach my $out (@$outref) {
+                $callback->({data => "$out"})
             }
-            $outref = xCAT::Utils->runxcmd(
-                {
-                    command => ['rpower'],
-                    node    => ["$node"],
-                    arg     => ['reset'],
-                },
-                $subreq, 0, 1);
-            if ($::RUNCMD_RC != 0) {
-                $callback->({ error => "failed to run command: rpower $node reset", errorcode => 1 });
-                return 1;
-            }
-        } elsif ($node_desc_ptr->{mgt} eq "kvm") {
-            $outref = xCAT::Utils->runxcmd(
-                {
-                    command => ['rpower'],
-                    node    => ["$node"],
-                    arg     => ['reset'],
-                },
-                $subreq, 0, 1);
-            if ($::RUNCMD_RC != 0) {
-                $callback->({ error => "failed to run command: rpower $node reset", errorcode => 1 });
-                return 1;
-            }
-        } elsif ($node_desc_ptr->{mgt} eq "hmc") {
-            $outref = xCAT::Utils->runxcmd(
-                {
-                    command => ["rnetboot"],
-                    node    => ["$node"],
-                },
-                $subreq, 0, 1);
-            if ($::RUNCMD_RC != 0) {
-                $callback->({ error => "failed to run command: rnetboot $node", errorcode => 1 });
-                return 1;
-            }
-        } else {
-            $callback->({ error => "$node: The mgt configuration is not supported by getadapter.",
-                    errorcode => 1 });
+            $callback->({ error => "failed to run command: rinstall $node runcmd=getadapter", errorcode => 1 });
             return 1;
         }
         $callback->({ data => "$node: Booting into genesis, this could take several minutes..." });
@@ -495,8 +445,8 @@ sub update_adapter_result {
     }
     $callback->({ data => "$output" });
     if (!$has_nic) {
-        $callback->({ data => "$node: Couldn't find interface name information detected by udevadm,"
-                  . " the nics table will not be updated." });
+        $callback->({ data => "$node: nics talbe will not be updated as not any ".
+                    "useful information could be found with udevadm command." });
         return 0;
     }
     my $nics_table = xCAT::Table->new('nics');