This reports whether a manual force-switch command is currently active on the west link of this logical ring, overriding G.8032's automatic protection-switching logic. A force-switch left on after maintenance is finished is a common operational trap, since it keeps traffic diverted away from the west link even though the link itself may be perfectly healthy, and this trap won't show up as an alarm the way an actual signal failure would. For example, if an admin forced the west link off during a planned fiber splice and forgot to clear it afterward, this object would still read on(2) days later, silently keeping the ring in a suboptimal traffic path.