| Units: | - |
| Mode: | Input Only |
| Multi-band: | False |
| Default Value: | 0 |
| Validation Rule: | Between 0 And 2147483647 |
| Key Property: | No |
| Description: | Random number seed assigned to the facility for the generation of outages |
Setting Facility Random Number Seed to a value other than zero allows you to control the sequence of random numbers used to create distributed maintenance and forced outage events. This seed overrides the Random Number Seed defined on the Model.
Note that you can capture the seeds generated from another simulation with the Diagnostic Random Number Seed.
This option can be useful if you want to ensure that a sequence of outages is repeated regardless of other changes in the data input, since by default the seeding can change when new Facility objects are added to the system.
To instead save a particular pattern of outages so that you can reuse them, use the Write Outage Text Files feature of PASA.