vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) tools upgrade

I recently went through and upgraded the VMware Tools on all of my virtual machines.  The only one I couldn’t get to work was my vCenter Mobile Access machine.  After some searching, I finally found this article on the VMware Communities site.  It took awhile to find, so I wanted to post the details here (so at least I can find them in the future).  Here is the source article with two takes on how to complete this task: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/216029?tstart=15

And here is a copy of the instructions for future reference:

1. Shutdown the VCMA guest and add a “client” CD ROM to the VCMA appliance and power-on
2. Snapshot the vCMA machine so you can undo if there are any problems!
3. Create a directory for mount point

mkdir /mnt/cdrom

4. Select “VM->Guest->Install/Upgrade VMware Tools” from the console menu
5. Copy the VMwareTools to the /tmp directory

cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-4*.gz /tmp

6. On the vCMA server console install the The World-Wide Web library for Perl.

yum install perl-libwww-perl

7. Extract the contents of the VMwareTools-4.0.0-164009.tar.gz file in the /tmp directory.

tar zxf /tmp/VMwareTools-4.0.0-164009.tar.gz

8. Uninstall the previous version of VMware Tools using the uninstaller from the latest version. The uninstall script wasn’t left from the initial install.

/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl

9. Install the latest version accepting the defaults.

/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl

10. Reboot the vCMA server.

shutdown -r now

11. If everything works correctly remove the snapshot.