[cisco-voip] OT: Monitoring Lan Switch Ports ?

[TechGuy]

I know this is a bit off topic, but I am looking to hear from others as to
what they do if anything in regards to monitoring the LAN, specifically
bandwidth usage down to specific ports.  I was asked to get an idea of what
sort of bandwidth usage a department in the company utilizes.  The reason is
they are looking at moving this department to a new off site building.  We
wanted to get an idea of what sort of bandwidth we may need to get for them.

So the idea was to monitor the port usage of each individual on the catalyst
switch.  However I am just not finding a very good way to do this with the
few tools I have and with the switch being a Sup 2 with set based commands
which I am not as familiar with.

I thought maybe SNMP could come in handy here with the right application to
monitor this but I am unsure what are some of the better options out there.

Thanks in advance and looking forward to hearing suggestions.
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