What is the best way to confirm that the miners are hooked up to the pool correctly with my correct BTC address? Is it as simple as the console saying "Connected to solo.ckpool.org diff 442 with stratum as user ***btc address***"?

Was curious if I could easily join a shared pool and how that works. Can I simply join a shared pool and they payout my share?

Really just trying to make sure it's working properly in the super rare case a block is mined.