Activate

Storm also the supports activating a topology. When a topology is activated, spouts will again start emitting tuples. The following is the command to activate the topology:

$> bin/storm activate topologyName  

Activate SampleStormClusterTopology using the following command:

bin/storm activate SampleStormClusterTopology

The following information is displayed:

0 [main] INFO backtype.storm.thrift - Connecting to Nimbus at localhost:6627 
65 [main] INFO backtype.storm.command.activate - Activated topology: SampleStormClusterTopology