Updates to alarm server Kafka topic management

[georgweiss]

This PR refactors Kafka topic creation code away from AlarmServerMain and adds the option to customize the replication factor and number of partitions.

Default values defined in alarm_server.properties, but can be overridden in properties file specified with the -settings program argument.

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