What is the nature and description of the request?

Customer has their Ansible Automation Platform environment installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8/9 system with FIPS enabled. When ansible connects to a juniper device using `netconf`, it appears that it is only able to use `paramiko` which is not FIPS-compliant. There doesn't apper to be a way to enable `libssh` over `netconf` either as ansible currently relies on `ncclient`.

Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

All servers within the customer's environment need to be FIPS-compliant.

How would you like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here)

• Add the ability to use `libssh` connection plugin with `netconf`

List any affected known dependencies: Doc, UI etc..

• `ncclient`

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