Is it possible to 'force' a topology ID to a specific value?

I’m currently looking at ways to leverage the Storm HTTP APIs to monitor the health of our storm cluster and a running topology in particular. I can get all the statistics I need when I know a particular topology ID, parsing the json returned from a URL like: http://servername:8080/api/v1/topol

Topology periodically stalls until manually restarted

k issues at all. This behavior is pretty much identical to something reported in August: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/storm-user/201408.mbox/%3CFF975F8738DEE84AABF1BF95A4248E6B6A8F5393%40mvexe1.integral.com%3E but this thread didn't really get resolved. Question 1: Is there any