title: How I can disable a topology for a period of time and then start it automatically when the period ends
body: <p>I have a topology that collects modifications from a topic, make some modifications on the data and then post them on an API, the api where we are posting has some maintenance periods(Time when we can't post anything there), We already have some services than return the maintenance periods but we are wondering <strong>How we can disable the topology for a period of time and then start it automatically when the period ends</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>We are using the following technologies:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Spring boot REST apis</li>
  <li>Apache Storm</li>
  <li>Apache Kafka</li>
  <li>Kafka Storm</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I don't know if there is a way to stop reading in the Kafka Spout integration.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help</p>