Abstract: A scheme for configuring a rack assembly. Upon selecting a rack from a catalog, whereby a pictorial representation of the rack is displayed in a workspace of a graphic display window associated with a user's computer system, one or more components are selected the catalog via a drag and drop interface, wherein each selected component is dragged by an input device associated with the computer system and dropped on the rack's representation in the workspace. As the selected components are added to the rack, a set of rules are applied to each component to automatically configure it with respect to the rack.