diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index a4285347b..1695ac0c2 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -599,18 +599,33 @@ up_to_2.3.80() {
 
 up_to_2.3.90() {
   for i in manager managersearch eval standalone; do
+    echo "Checking for compgen match of /opt/so/saltstack/local/pillar/minions/*_$i.sls"
     if compgen -G "/opt/so/saltstack/local/pillar/minions/*_$i.sls"; then
-      echo "soc:" >> /opt/so/saltstack/local/pillar/minions/*_$i.sls
-      sed -i "/^soc:/a \\  es_index_patterns: '*:so-*,*:endgame-*'" /opt/so/saltstack/local/pillar/minions/*_$i.sls
+      echo "Found compgen match for /opt/so/saltstack/local/pillar/minions/*_$i.sls"
+      for f in $(compgen -G "/opt/so/saltstack/local/pillar/minions/*_$i.sls"); do
+        if grep -qozP "^soc:\n.*es_index_patterns: '\*:so-\*,\*:endgame-\*'" "$f"; then
+          echo "soc:es_index_patterns already present in $f"
+        else
+          echo "Appending soc pillar data to $f"
+          echo "soc:" >> "$f"
+          sed -i "/^soc:/a \\  es_index_patterns: '*:so-*,*:endgame-*'" "$f"
+        fi
+      done
     fi
   done
   
   # Create Endgame Hostgroup
-  so-firewall addhostgroup endgame
+  echo "Adding endgame hostgroup with so-firewall"
+  if so-firewall addhostgroup endgame 2>&1 | grep -q 'Already exists'; then
+    echo 'endgame hostgroup already exists'
+  else
+    echo 'endgame hostgroup added'
+  fi
   
   # Force influx to generate a new cert
-  mv /etc/pki/influxdb.crt /etc/pki/influxdb.crt.2390upgrade
-  mv /etc/pki/influxdb.key /etc/pki/influxdb.key.2390upgrade
+  echo "Moving influxdb.crt and influxdb.key to generate new certs"
+  mv -vf /etc/pki/influxdb.crt /etc/pki/influxdb.crt.2390upgrade
+  mv -vf /etc/pki/influxdb.key /etc/pki/influxdb.key.2390upgrade
   
   # remove old common ingest pipeline in default
   rm -vf /opt/so/saltstack/default/salt/elasticsearch/files/ingest/common