diff --git a/salt/elasticfleet/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elastic-agent-gen-installers b/salt/elasticfleet/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elastic-agent-gen-installers
index e09ce7b67..be83963ad 100755
--- a/salt/elasticfleet/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elastic-agent-gen-installers
+++ b/salt/elasticfleet/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elastic-agent-gen-installers
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@
 #so-elastic-agent-gen-installers $FleetHostURLs $EnrollmentToken 
 
 {% from 'vars/globals.map.jinja' import GLOBALS %}
-{%- import_yaml 'elasticsearch/defaults.yaml' as ELASTICSEARCHDEFAULTS -%}
 
 . /usr/sbin/so-common
 . /usr/sbin/so-elastic-fleet-common
 
 LOG="/opt/so/log/elasticfleet/so-elastic-agent-gen-installers.log"
 
+# get the variables needed such as ELASTIC_AGENT_TARBALL_VERSION
+get_elastic_agent_vars()
+
 # Check to see if we are already running
 NUM_RUNNING=$(pgrep -cf "/bin/bash /sbin/so-elastic-agent-gen-installers")
 [ "$NUM_RUNNING" -gt 1 ] && echo "$(date) - $NUM_RUNNING gen installers script processes running...exiting." >>$LOG && exit 0
@@ -37,8 +39,9 @@ printf  "\n### Creating a temp directory at /nsm/elastic-agent-workspace\n"
 rm -rf /nsm/elastic-agent-workspace
 mkdir -p /nsm/elastic-agent-workspace
 
+
 printf "\n### Extracting outer tarball and then each individual tarball/zip\n"
-tar -xf /nsm/elastic-fleet/artifacts/elastic-agent_SO-{{ELASTICSEARCHDEFAULTS.elasticsearch.version}}.tar.gz -C /nsm/elastic-agent-workspace/
+tar -xf /nsm/elastic-fleet/artifacts/elastic-agent_SO-$ELASTIC_AGENT_TARBALL_VERSION.tar.gz -C /nsm/elastic-agent-workspace/
 unzip -q /nsm/elastic-agent-workspace/elastic-agent-*.zip -d /nsm/elastic-agent-workspace/
 for archive in /nsm/elastic-agent-workspace/*.tar.gz
 do