installing vmware tools on asterisk

I am in the same situation with Asterisk on CentOS. When I attempt to run VMWare tools installer on the VM from within iSphere I get this error:

Call “VirtualMachine.MountToolsInstaller” for object “oak-svm-lin22” on vCenter Server “virtualcenter.tomsawyer.com” failed.

No VMware Tools package is available. The VMware Tools package is not available for this guest operating system.

The required VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible.

Fair enough, so I try doing YUM as noted above and and it appears to install correctly and I verified with rpm:

[root@oak-svm-lin22 ~]# rpm -qva | grep vmware

vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-utilities-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-drv-mouse-12.6.4.0-0.341836.el5

vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-open-vm-tools-nox-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-tools-nox-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-open-vm-tools-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-drv-display-10.16.7.0-0.341836.el5

vmware-tools-common-8.3.7-341836.el6

vmware-tools-8.3.7-341836.el6

So how come it is not running? I did a search for vmware–tools–config.pl thinking that may be what is needed to complete the installation, but that doesn’t exist on the file system of the machine in question. Can I just copy it over from elsewhere or is there meant to be another method via YUM?

What am I missing here?

Thanks,

John