Defines a value for a global variable that can be accessed anywhere special formatting characters are permitted. The syntax is:

DefineFormattedGlobalVar variablename value

This example defines the global variable called variablename to be the string value. The value can be accessed where special formatting characters are permitted with %{GlobalVar:variablename}.

Within value, special formatting characters are permitted, so you can have one global variable that depends on another global variable.

In the following example, the log file will be called ./detail-server1:

DefineFormattedGlobalVar servername server1
LogFile ./detail-%{GlobalVar:servername}