Data for a deleted provider is still being displayed on dashboard

[akhil-g]

We have added Vmware infrastructure (Vcenter) provider to ManageIQ, done some operations for a couple of days and deleted the provider. When deleted the Provider from the inventory, It shows a popup message as:
"Delete initiated for 1 Infrastructure Provider from ManageIQ Database".
Later the provider is removed from the Inventory & VMDB Database, as a purge process is initiated and deleted from the VMDB which is found the in the logs.
Even after deleting the provider, the Data is still present in the dashboard.

1. Is data is getting stored only in the Metrics_00,.. or any other tables?
2. Do we need to change any configurations? If yes please provide the procedure.
3. Do we need to manually cleanup the any specific data in VMDB tables?

Version: Hammer 5

[Fryguy]

@akhil-g when vms and templates are deleted, we keep them as "archived", so it's possible those archived objects are still around with their associated data. However, I thought that when deleting an entire provider then those would also be removed. Do you see any errors in your logs?

cc @agrare

[agrare]

@Fryguy when deleting a provider vms and hosts aren't deleted as it has a dependent nullify on the relation (https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq/blob/master/app/models/ext_management_system.rb#L57)

Do you see anything besides data related to vms or hosts? (E.g. Metrics would be related to the vms but clusters wouldn't)

[chessbyte]

@agrare @Fryguy wondering if we should offer an option to delete or archive VMs and Hosts when user requests to delete a provider. I can see the use cases for both.

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[agrare]

I think that makes sense (allowing this to be configurable), converting this to an enhancement request