diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index d93218db4..600cb5d4e 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -610,6 +610,9 @@ up_to_2.4.50() {
   mkdir /opt/so/rules/nids/suri
   chown socore:socore /opt/so/rules/nids/suri
   mv -v /opt/so/rules/nids/*.rules /opt/so/rules/nids/suri/.
+  
+  echo "Adding /nsm/elastic-fleet/artifacts to file_roots in /etc/salt/master using so-yaml"
+  so-yaml.py append /etc/salt/master file_roots.base  /nsm/elastic-fleet/artifacts
 
   INSTALLEDVERSION=2.4.50
 }