Administration and operation

The administration and operation of NTP essentially involves querying the NTP status with the NTP program ntpq.

The NTP program ntpq can be used to query the current status of NTP servers via control messages. It can be optionally executed in interactive mode or controlled via command-line options. When executing ntpq interactively with commands, a distinction must be madebetween the internal commands of ntpq and the commands for control messages.