This reports whether a manual force-switch is active on the east side of this specific virtual ring, again at the per-virtual-ring granularity rather than the whole physical logical ring. As with the west-side version, an admin can use this to isolate a force-switch test or migration to a single customer's virtual ring, but must also remember to check and clear this object specifically, not just the logical-ring-level force objects, once maintenance is done, since the two levels are independent. For example, after finishing a service migration, an admin should verify this reads off(1) for the affected virtual ring even if the underlying physical ring's own force-switch objects were never touched.