diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index 6b87538aa..d9fadce29 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ pillar_changes() {
         local EHOSTNAME=$(echo $p | awk -F"_" '{print $1}')
 	local IP=$(echo $p | awk '{print $2}')
         echo "Adding the new cross cluster config for $NAME"
-        curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/_cluster/settings -H'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"persistent": {"search": {"remote": {"'$NAME'/'$IP'": {"skip_unavailable": "true", "seeds": ["'$EHOSTNAME':9300"]}}}}}'
+        curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/_cluster/settings -H'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"persistent": {"search": {"remote": {"'$NAME'": {"skip_unavailable": "true", "seeds": ["'$EHOSTNAME':9300"]}}}}}'
       done </tmp/nodes.txt