Vmware tools on Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Hi,
Is there a way to install vMware tools on Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.2. I know this can be done on LMS4.2. how about access to the shell like LMS4.2?
Thanks,
Kerim

This was not preinstalled on ours though the files were there. We found the .gz install in this directory:
/opt/CSCOlumos/tempInstallFiles
we copied the the file to tmp:
ade# cp /opt/CSCOlumos/tempInstallFiles/VMwareTools-8.6.5-621624.tar.gz /tmp
changed to that directory and unzipped the file
ade# tar zxvf VMwareTools-8.6.5-621624.tar.gz
and installed the file
ade# cd vmware-tools-distrib
ade# ./vmware-install.pl
and it is now running
ade # ps auxwww | grep vm
root     22100 0.0 0.0      0     0 ?        S<   07:59   0:00 [vmmemctl]
root     22326 0.0 0.0 134004 4124 ?        S    07:59   0:00 /usr/sbin/vmtoolsd
root     22397 0.0 0.0   6044   588 pts/1    S+   08:00   0:00 grep vm

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