Improve notification plugin error reporting

etingof · Jan 10, 2019 · c8478a7 · c8478a7
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diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Revision 0.4.6, released XX-01-2019
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-No changes yet
+- Improve error reporting in `notification` variation module
 
 Revision 0.4.5, released 30-12-2018
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diff --git a/variation/notification.py b/variation/notification.py
@@ -61,7 +61,9 @@ def variate(oid, tag, value, **context):
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             moduleContext[snmpEngine][context['transportDomain']] = 1
     else:
-        raise error.SnmpsimError('variation module not given snmpEngine')
+        raise error.SnmpsimError(
+            'Variation module is not given snmpEngine. '
+            'Make sure you are not running in --v2c-arch mode')
 
     if not context['nextFlag'] and not context['exactMatch']:
         return context['origOid'], tag, context['errorStatus']