Installing a Storm release locally
If you want to be able to submit topologies to a remote cluster from your machine, you should install a Storm release locally. Installing a Storm release will give you the storm client that you can use to interact with remote clusters. To install Storm locally, download a release from here and unzip it somewhere on your computer. Then add the unpacked bin/ directory onto your PATH and make sure the bin/storm script is executable.
Installing a Storm release locally is only for interacting with remote clusters. For developing and testing topologies in local mode, it is recommended that you use Maven to include Storm as a dev dependency for your project. You can read more about using Maven for this purpose on Maven.
Your machine uses a command line client called storm to communicate with Nimbus. The storm client is only used for remote mode; it is not used for developing and testing topologies in local mode.
Starting and stopping topologies on a remote cluster
The previous step installed the storm client on your machine which is used to communicate with remote Storm clusters. Now all you have to do is tell the client which Storm cluster to talk to. To do this, all you have to do is put the host address of the master in the ~/.storm/storm.yaml file. It should look something like this:
nimbus.seeds: ["123.45.678.890"]