def METHOD_NAME(self, password=None):
    """Checks to see if the local system supported SaltStack Master.
    This check relies on feedback from the salt binary. The command being
    run should always generate stderr output, but depending on what that
    output reads we can determine if SaltStack Master is supported or not.
    For our purposes, a host that does not support SaltStack Master is not
    able to run sos-collector.
    Returns
        True if SaltStack Master is supported, else raise Exception
    """
    cmd = 'salt-run manage.status'
    res = sos_get_command_output(cmd)
    if res['status'] == 0:
        return res['status'] == 0
    else:
        raise SaltStackMasterUnsupportedException