Yes, you can use Percona Tools without root access in your server.

You can download individually and run them from your home directory.

For example:
mkdir -p ~/bin && cd ~/bin
wget percona.com/get/pt-summary
chmod +x pt-summary
./pt-summary

With root access it will show you more information, for example.. if you have lvm, it will show you the output of vgdisplay but if you don't have root access .. it will show you all the information that your user can access.


Other tools would require root access or super privileges in the mysql server.. but this will depend of each tool.

Also, check the system requirements here: http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.1/system_requir ements.html

Bye!

Martin