Determining the companion’s mode

You can issue sp_companion without any options to display the mode the companion is currently in. For example:

sp_companion
Server ‘MONEY1’ is alive and cluster configured.
Server ‘MONEY1’ is configured for HA services.
Server ‘MONEY1’ is currently in ‘Symmetric normal’ mode.

Companion MONEY1 is configured for symmetric failover and is currently running in normal companion mode.