diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index 764a61efa..eb281baae 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ highstate
 echo ""
 echo "Upgrade from $INSTALLEDVERSION to $NEWVERSION complete."
 
+SALTUPGRADED="True"
 if [[ "$SALTUPGRADED" == "True" ]]; then
   echo ""
   echo "Upgrading Salt on the remaining Security Onion nodes from $INSTALLEDSALTVERSION to $NEWSALTVERSION."