diff --git a/healthcheck/iscsid b/healthcheck/iscsid
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..da2db2829
--- /dev/null
+++ b/healthcheck/iscsid
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+socat - ABSTRACT-CONNECT:ISCSIADM_ABSTRACT_NAMESPACE </dev/null
+exit $?