def _prepare_connection(**nxos_api_kwargs):
    '''
    Prepare the connection with the remote network device, and clean up the key
    value pairs, removing the args used for the connection init.
    '''
    nxos_api_kwargs = clean_kwargs(**nxos_api_kwargs)
    init_kwargs = {}
    # Clean up any arguments that are not required
    for karg, warg in six.iteritems(nxos_api_kwargs):
        if karg in RPC_INIT_KWARGS:
            init_kwargs[karg] = warg
    if 'host' not in init_kwargs:
        init_kwargs['host'] = 'localhost'
    if 'transport' not in init_kwargs:
        init_kwargs['transport'] = 'https'
    if 'port' not in init_kwargs:
        init_kwargs['port'] = 80 if init_kwargs['transport'] == 'http' else 443
    verify = init_kwargs.get('verify', True)
    if isinstance(verify, bool):
        init_kwargs['verify_ssl'] = verify
    else:
        init_kwargs['ca_bundle'] = verify
    if 'rpc_version' not in init_kwargs:
        init_kwargs['rpc_version'] = '2.0'
    if 'timeout' not in init_kwargs:
        init_kwargs['timeout'] = 60
    return init_kwargs
Prepare the connection with the remote network device, and clean up the key
    value pairs, removing the args used for the connection init.