diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dev-support/checks/blockade.sh b/hadoop-ozone/dev-support/checks/blockade.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..f8b25c176a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dev-support/checks/blockade.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
+cd "$DIR/../../.." || exit 1
+
+OZONE_VERSION=$(grep "<ozone.version>" "$DIR/../../pom.xml" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'|  sed 's/^[ \t]*//')
+cd "$DIR/../../dist/target/ozone-$OZONE_VERSION/tests" || exit 1
+
+source ${DIR}/../../dist/target/ozone-${OZONE_VERSION}/compose/ozoneblockade/.env
+export HADOOP_RUNNER_VERSION
+export HDDS_VERSION
+
+python -m pytest -s blockade
+exit $?
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/fault-injection-test/network-tests/src/test/blockade/ozone/cluster.py b/hadoop-ozone/fault-injection-test/network-tests/src/test/blockade/ozone/cluster.py
index f83ad25995..143426614d 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/fault-injection-test/network-tests/src/test/blockade/ozone/cluster.py
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/fault-injection-test/network-tests/src/test/blockade/ozone/cluster.py
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@
 import os
 import re
 import subprocess
+import sys
 import yaml
+import time
 
 
 from os import environ
@@ -146,11 +148,17 @@ def start(self):
         """
         Start Ozone Cluster in docker containers.
         """
-        # check if proper env $HDDS_VERSION and $HADOOP_RUNNER_VERSION
-        # are set.
 
         # check if docker is up.
 
+        if "HADOOP_RUNNER_VERSION" not in os.environ:
+            self.__logger__.error("HADOOP_RUNNER_VERSION is not set.")
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+        if "HDDS_VERSION" not in os.environ:
+            self.__logger__.error("HDDS_VERSION is not set.")
+            sys.exit(1)
+
         self.__logger__.info("Starting Ozone Cluster")
         if Blockade.blockade_status() == 0:
             Blockade.blockade_destroy()
@@ -162,7 +170,7 @@ def start(self):
               "datanode=" + str(self.conf.datanode_count)])
         self.__logger__.info("Waiting 10s for cluster start up...")
         # Remove the sleep and wait only till the cluster is out of safemode
-        # time.sleep(10)
+        time.sleep(10)
         output = subprocess.check_output([Command.docker_compose, "-f",
                                           self.docker_compose_file, "ps"])
         node_list = []