Newish owner (one month in and toying with smart copies), and I've just installed the VMware VSM appliance. My concern is as follows:

I'm probably going to set this up to make SmartCopies of a number of important VMs several times per day. How do I know that this thing is doing its job? Maybe the Daemons within the appliance are hung? As an admin, I rely on monitoring to mitigate things that might go wrong. 

Normally in a situation like this, I would use some type of SNMP monitoring to ensure that the Daemons are functioning correctly, yet there are no SNMP options that I've found. I thought about going into the CLI and setting up SNMP, since this is CENTOS 5.3, but I can't get to an actual command prompt.

Basically, the only things that I can find to monitor are a ping and whether the http website loads.

Any ideas? I'm kind of resourceful and fair at google, so since it's CentOS if someone could get me to the command line then I might be able to do something, but I've hit a brick wall here....