Sitemaps - do I need to submit each sitemap in sitemap_index.xml to Google Webmaster tools?

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Published on 2012-12-18T20:04:36Z Indexed on 2012/12/18 23:14 UTC
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I am having a Wordpress blog on my CentOS server. There is no sitemap.xml in the root directory but there is sitemap_index.xml file in the root directory which contains the following code:

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://mywebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css/xml-sitemap-xsl.php"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <sitemap>
        <loc>
            http://mywebsite.com/post-sitemap.xml
        </loc>
        <lastmod>
            2012-12-18T19:47:47+00:00
        </lastmod>
    </sitemap>

    <sitemap>
        <loc>
            http://mywebsite.com/page-sitemap.xml
        </loc>
        <lastmod>
            2012-12-18T17:32:49+00:00
        </lastmod>
    </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

My question: Which sitemap should I submit to Google Webmasters Tools? Options are:

Only sitemap_index.xml
Only post-sitemap.xml and page-sitemap.xml
All 3 (sitemap_index.xml, post-sitemap.xml and page-sitemap.xml)
Any other, please let me know.

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