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You can simply configure the dependency link of these resources in a tree form.You can see the dependency among resources intuitively from the view above.
The IP address resource as a parent depends on the NIC resource as its child. The application resource as a parent depends on the IP address resource as its child.
Therefore, some resources as like IP address of above example can be both child and parent relatively.
As described before, When a single resource is failed MCCS failover all of the resources in a group. Therefore 
Therefore, when these are linked to one another as dependency rule and tied up together as a group, they can provide proper application service.
When you configure parent-child dependency link between two resources, there are 2 levels and the maximum level can be checked on value of  'MaxDependencyLevel' of group attribute.

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Dependency Attribute

[Figure] Edit DependancyType

You can review and edit a dependency attribute when you select a dependency among resources.
There are "OnlineDependency" and "OfflineDependency" in the dependency attribute.
This is applied when you bring online and take offline a resource within "Restartlimit"(For more details about Restartlimit, Please refer to "Chapter 7. Resource" in this manual.)

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