diff --git a/mtce/debian/deb_folder/mtce.install b/mtce/debian/deb_folder/mtce.install
index c9dddae5..b94b2cec 100644
--- a/mtce/debian/deb_folder/mtce.install
+++ b/mtce/debian/deb_folder/mtce.install
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ etc/pmon.d/hbsClient.conf
 etc/pmon.d/mtcClient.conf
 etc/pmon.d/mtcalarm.conf
 etc/pmon.d/mtclogd.conf
-etc/pmon.d/nslcd.conf
+etc/pmon.d/sssd.conf
 etc/pmon.d/sshd.conf
 etc/pmon.d/syslog-ng.conf
 etc/services.d/controller/mtcTest
diff --git a/mtce/debian/deb_folder/rules b/mtce/debian/deb_folder/rules
index 276f92bb..a9c1dfc5 100644
--- a/mtce/debian/deb_folder/rules
+++ b/mtce/debian/deb_folder/rules
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ override_dh_auto_install:
 	install -m 644 -p -D pmon/scripts/acpid.conf $(PMONDIR)/acpid.conf
 	install -m 644 -p -D pmon/scripts/sshd.conf $(PMONDIR)/sshd.conf
 	install -m 644 -p -D pmon/scripts/syslog-ng.conf $(PMONDIR)/syslog-ng.conf
-	install -m 644 -p -D pmon/scripts/nslcd.conf $(PMONDIR)/nslcd.conf
+	install -m 644 -p -D pmon/scripts/sssd.conf $(PMONDIR)/sssd.conf
 	install -m 644 -p -D fsmon/scripts/fsmon.conf $(PMONDIR)/fsmon.conf
 	install -m 644 -p -D scripts/mtclogd.conf $(PMONDIR)/mtclogd.conf
 	install -m 644 -p -D alarm/scripts/mtcalarm.pmon.conf $(PMONDIR)/mtcalarm.conf
diff --git a/mtce/src/pmon/scripts/sssd.conf b/mtce/src/pmon/scripts/sssd.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a6e9ee41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mtce/src/pmon/scripts/sssd.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+[process]
+process  = sssd
+service  = sssd
+pidfile  = /var/run/sssd.pid
+style    = lsb            ; ocf or lsb
+severity = major          ; minor, major, critical
+restarts = 3              ; restart retries before error assertion
+interval = 5              ; number of seconds to wait between restarts
+debounce = 20             ; number of seconds that a process needs to remain
+                          ;   running before degrade is removed and retry count
+                          ;   is cleared.
+startuptime  = 5          ; Seconds to wait after process start before starting the debounce monitor
+mode  = passive           ; Monitoring mode: passive (default) or active
+                          ; passive: process death monitoring (default: always)
+                          ; active : heartbeat monitoring, i.e. request / response messaging
+                          ; ignore : do not monitor or stop monitoring