diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/watchdog/phosphor-watchdog/obmc-enable-host-watchdog@.service b/common/recipes-phosphor/watchdog/phosphor-watchdog/obmc-enable-host-watchdog@.service
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+[Unit]
+Description=Start Watchdog%i
+Wants=obmc-host-started@%i.target
+After=obmc-host-started@%i.target
+Wants=mapper-wait@-xyz-openbmc_project-watchdog-host%i.service
+After=mapper-wait@-xyz-openbmc_project-watchdog-host%i.service
+Conflicts=obmc-host-stop@%i.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart={sbindir}/mapper call /xyz/openbmc_project/watchdog/host%i org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties Set ssv xyz.openbmc_project.State.Watchdog Enabled b true