[RHV] Hosted engine deploy fails due to 'Permission denied: '/etc/ipsec.conf'' message

Issue

The self-hosted engine deploy fails with following message in the setup log

"OSError: Failed to configure OVN controller."], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []

In the /var/log/messages log

Jan 30 13:06:58 test ovs-ctl[59847]: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/ipsec.conf'
Jan 30 13:06:58 test journal[59847]: ovs|  2  | ovs-monitor-ipsec | ERR | traceback#012Traceback (most recent call last):#012  File "/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-monitor-ipsec", line 1297, in <module>#012  
  main()#012  File "/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-monitor-ipsec", line 1243, in main#012    not args.no_restart_ike_daemon)#012  File "/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-monitor-ipsec", line 984, in __init_
_#012    self.ike_helper.restart_ike_daemon()#012  File "/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-monitor-ipsec", line 460, in restart_ike_daemon#012    f = open(self.IPSEC_CONF, "w")#012PermissionError: [Errno 13] Pe
rmission denied: '/etc/ipsec.conf'
Jan 30 13:06:58 test systemd[1]: openvswitch-ipsec.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jan 30 13:06:58 test systemd[1]: openvswitch-ipsec.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 30 13:06:58 testsystemd[1]: Failed to start OVS IPsec daemon.