diff --git a/salt/telegraf/scripts/sostatus.sh b/salt/telegraf/scripts/sostatus.sh
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/salt/telegraf/scripts/sostatus.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright 2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021 Security Onion Solutions, LLC
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+APP=sostatus
+lf=/tmp/$APP-pidLockFile
+# create empty lock file if none exists
+cat /dev/null >> $lf
+read lastPID < $lf
+# if lastPID is not null and a process with that pid exists , exit
+[ ! -z "$lastPID" -a -d /proc/$lastPID ] && exit
+echo $$ > $lf
+SOSTATUSLOG=/var/log/sostatus/status.log
+SOSTATUSSTATUS=$(cat /var/log/sostatus/status.log)
+
+if [ -f "$SOSTATUSLOG" ]; then
+    echo "sostatus status=$SOSTATUSSTATUS"
+else
+    exit 0
+fi