A new, cluster-wide database of channel counters can be created with the COUNTERS CRDB command. The new database will have all counters zeroed except for the count of messages stored in each channel. Those counts will be determined by entries in the PMDF queue cache database. In addition, if an in-memory section for association and channel counters on this node does not already exist, it will be created as well. Once the on-disk, cluster-wide database exists, you may use the COUNTERS SYNCHRONIZE command to merge the information from the node-specific, in-memory cache of counters into the on-disk database.